Why Plan Cache Scripts Can Be Misleading
A Long Way From Home Most scripts (even ones I’ve worked on!) that look at the plan cache, have had…
2019-04-26
Database Performance
Yes, pulling just the data you need is really important.
I was asked the other day why a customer was having performance issues on a table. A simple SELECT that ... Continue reading
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2019-04-24
When READPAST Doesn’t Read Past
Oh, Bother Sometimes, you only wanna work on one thing. Other times, you only wanna work on something if it’s…
2019-04-24
Slightly Less Not SARGable
Date Debate Searching dates is a common enough task. There are, of course, good and bad ways to do this.…
2019-04-22
Which Database is Causing the Problem?
You’ve got one SQL Server hosting a bunch of databases, and performance is bad. Which database should you focus on first? Here are a few ways you can pick...
2019-04-17
Index scans aren’t always bad, and index seeks aren’t always great.
Somewhere along the way in your career, you were told that: Index seeks are quick, lightweight operations Table scans are ugly, slow operations And ever since, you’ve kept an...
2019-04-16
Have Your Batch Updates Become Unmanageable?
Look, I’m telling you this as a friend. Seriously, it’s time to let go of your batch updates. It’s not a...
2019-04-16
When Inline UDFs are Slower
Brent Ozar has been digging deep into new functionality in SQL Server 2019: In the Froid white paper, Microsoft talked about how they were working on fixing the function...
2019-04-15
Intelligent Query Processing FAQ
Joe Sack answers a number of questions about intelligent query processing in SQL Server: You have batch mode adaptive joins, but no row mode adaptive joins. Why?Adaptive joins are...
2019-04-15
Does ARITHABORT Setting Negatively Impact SQL Server Performance? – Interview Question of the Week #220
Question: Does ARITHABORT Setting Negatively Impact SQL Server Performance?
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2019-04-14
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
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Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
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provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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