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
Database Performance
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
Finding Froid’s Limits: Testing Inlined User-Defined Functions
This week, I’ve been writing about how SQL Server 2019’s bringing a few new features to mitigate parameter sniffing, but they’re more complex than they appear at first glance:...
2019-04-11
Parameter Sniffing in SQL Server 2019: Adaptive Joins
So far, I’ve talked about how adaptive memory grants both help and worsen parameter sniffing, and how the new air_quote_actual plans don’t accurately show what happened. But so far,...
2019-04-10
Parameter Sniffing in SQL Server 2019: Air_Quote_Actual Plans
My last post talked about how parameter sniffing caused 3 problems for a query, and how SQL Server 2019 fixes one of them – kinda – with adaptive memory...
2019-04-09
Blogs
Parameterize your Databricks notebooks with widgets
Widgets provide a way to parameterize notebooks in Databricks. If you need to call...
FDD 2023 – Session Materials
You can find the slides for my session at Future Data Driven summit at...
Quick Filtering in SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I saw someone limit the databases they see in SSMS, which isn’t something I...
Forums
Alwyason availability group can set primary role permanently?
Hi. Two node windows clusters Node1 and Node2 and configured alwayson availability group. Will...
need some help with spilt raw data
Hello, I am trying to split data, looks like there is some special...
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