There’s the old saying “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t -- you’re right” from Henry Ford. I’ve thought about this more recently while reading the book The Rise of Superman Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance which talks about how athletes have performed so called impossible feats over the past few […]
2020-10-31
94 reads
The term DevOps gets horribly abused. Don’t get me started on all the weird additions to it like DevSecOps. No, I just mean the term itself gets beaten up quite a lot. It’s to the point where people are starting to shy away from talking about it. I’ve even changed my approach when discussing DevOps […]
2020-10-24
160 reads
Over the years when I changed careers and then advanced in IT, many people helped me learn or provided opportunities. Some of these people gave specific in-person help, like my brothers who taught me programming logic and database normalization before I ever thought about working in technology. Others assisted from a distance when I read […]
2020-09-05
184 reads
I always look forward to new T-SQL features and optimizer enhancements with every new version of SQL Server. Starting in 2017, Microsoft came up with a set of features called Intelligent Query Processing (IQP). These features work to improve performance without changing any code. If you’d like to learn more about these features, take a […]
2020-07-11
794 reads
Steve notes that many of us might not completely understand every part of our database, but it's information that can be helpful in cleaning out unnecessary entities.
2019-04-10
557 reads
Using code to help you write code is a time honored tradition in software development.
2023-08-16 (first published: 2019-04-09)
560 reads
Steve reminds some people that there are reasons to continue to improve your skills.
2019-04-08
1,800 reads
Azure Data Explorer is a platform from Microsoft that might be an interesting fit
2019-04-05
367 reads
2019-04-04
656 reads
Today Steve has an announcement about his role in moving Books Online forward.
2019-04-01
541 reads
Hello everyone! Just a quick note. I’ve removed all my slide decks from SlideShare....
Following on from my previous post about hitting the Kubernetes API from SQL Server...
By Rohit Garg
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Good afternoon, I had a 7.8 TB database that needed some work. I removed...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Model Context Protocol (MCP): A...
You're tasked with planning capacity for a new SQL Server database workload. Which of the following is the most accurate way to determine how much CPU, memory, and I/O throughput your workload requires? What single or multiple tools would you use to answer the questions around resource needs?
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