SQL In The City: London 2012, Recap
Wow!
How’s that for a recap?
The concept for the SQL in the City events is pretty simple. Put on a free...
2012-07-17 (first published: 2012-07-16)
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The Scary DBA
Querying Information from the Plan Cache, Simplified
One of the great things about the Dynamic Management Objects (DMOs) that expose the information in plan cache is that,...
2012-07-02
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The New Phone Book Is Here!
I can’t help it. I get really terribly excited when I publish a book. Maybe it should be old hat....
2012-06-27
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Problems with my new book
First off, I apologize. As if writing a book wasn’t hard enough, now we get new problems because of on-demand...
2012-06-26
834 reads
Does Encryption Affect Seeing Statements in Deadlock Graphs?
Good question. I don’t have a clue. So let’s set up a test. I’ll create this stored procedure:
CREATE PROCEDURE DL2e
...
2012-07-03 (first published: 2012-06-25)
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PASS Summit 2012
I sure hope you’re planning on attending the PASS Summit this year. If you’re not, you might want to reconsider....
2012-06-19
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PASS Nomination Committee
For some reason, which isn’t completely clear to me, we’re voting for part of the members of the Nomination Committee...
2012-06-13
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Guest Blog
I was given the opportunity to put together a guest blog post for the MVP blog. I did a little...
2012-06-05
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How to Drop One Plan from Cache
While presenting this weekend at SQL Saturday #117 in Columbus, OH (great event, if you missed it, you missed it),...
2012-06-07 (first published: 2012-06-04)
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Never, Ever Use Clustered Indexes
This whole concept of the clustered index as a foundational structure within SQL Server is just plain nuts. Sure, I...
2012-05-31
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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
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Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
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Representing Money
Which types of currency does the money data type represent?
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