SQL University–Recommendations for a Clustered Index
Welcome, SQL University Students to another extension class here at Miskatonic University, home to the Fighting Cephalopods (GO PODS!). Never...
2011-04-04
1,240 reads
The Scary DBA
SQL Saturday #67 Wrap-up
Just… Wow. What an event. What a great group of people. I’m just so lucky to be involved with fantastic...
2011-03-28
925 reads
Communication
It sure seems like there’s a lot of miscommunication between developers and database specialists. In fact, the communication can become...
2011-03-21
2,622 reads
Where does slow performance come from?
I have my opinions and experience, and I’ve no doubt you have yours. Paul Randal (blog|twitter) has put up another...
2011-03-17
749 reads
ANSI Connection Settings
It’s reasonably well known that you can get different execution plans if you change the ANSI connection settings. But the...
2011-03-14
1,728 reads
Execution Plan Stability
I’ve talked before about one of the primary things that the Query Optimizer team at Microsoft tries to avoid, regressions....
2011-03-07
794 reads
What Should PASS Be?
Andy Warren posted a question the other day (well, issued a challenge actually), “What Should PASS Be?” I’ll let you...
2011-02-22
718 reads
SQL Rally
I believe I’ve been far too quiet about this event.
In May, in Orlando Florida, there will be a two...
2011-02-17
654 reads
UN-SQL Friday #003–Vendor Love
The love that dare not speak it’s name… Yes, love for vendors. <shudder> Oh, I mean I love my new...
2011-02-15
597 reads
SQL Saturday #60, Cleveland Speaker Evals
I just received 35 speaker evaluations from SQL Saturday #60 in Cleveland. It was a great event (although I had...
2011-02-15
1,023 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
A Front Door for the DBA Team – AgentDBA UI
By Arun Sirpal
AgentDBA began as a command line. That suits one DBA on one server, but...
Cleaning Up Azure MS Defender Billing
By Steve Jones
I have a few Azure subscriptions, which are fairly small and not used that...
Forums
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SQL Server Vector Support II
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