Pier to Pier Replication on Frozen Lake Erie
In a guest post, Rodney Landrum ponders the gaps in his DBA experience at the edge of Lake Erie.
Checking the Plan Cache Warnings for a SQL Server Database
How often do you check your query plans to see if they contain any warnings? If you're missing them, it means that you're not getting all those hints about missing indexes, join predicates or statistics. Is the query optimiser trying to tell you about implicit conversions? Dennes shows how to view the warnings in plan cache for a particular database using SQL.
The Express Choice
This week Steve Jones wonders if you'd be willing to use Express edition in production situations.
Cloud Storage Replication Is Not Backup
The options that you need to select when setting up an Azure Storage service account allow you to specify the durability and high-availability of your data, but they don't provide for data recovery to a point-in-time. In fact, it means that some of the bad things that can happen to data are more efficiently replicated to all copies. Backup is quite a separate issue.
SQL Saturday #381 - Richmond, VA
SQL Saturday is coming to Richmond on March 21, 2015. Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking. There are also paid-for pre-con sessions available from Tim Mitchell and Kevin Kline. Register while space is available.
Building Small Habits
Today Steve Jones talks about development, and finding ways to make small changes that improve your code.
The Potential of Joins
An article about how we underestimate the power of joins and degrade our query performance by not using proper joins
Another Look at Tuning Big Data Queries
Most large organizations have implemented one or more big data applications. As more data accumulates internal users and analysts execute more reports and forecasts, which leads to additional queries and analysis, and more reporting. The cycle continues: data growth leads to better analysis, which generates more reporting. Eventually the big data application swells with so much data and querying that performance suffers.
How do you develop and deploy your database?
Could you spare 3 minutes to do us a quick favor? Redgate’s running this short survey on how our readers develop and deploy databases. It’s just 12 multiple choice questions, so if you’ve got a couple of minutes to spare, we’d love to hear from you.
Blogs
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
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Spring Connections and Learning at PASS On Tour
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Question of the Day
Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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