Writing my presentation 2: Designing the presentation
This series is about my process for writing my upcoming presentation at SQL Saturday Chicago #825.
Today’s goals
Today I’m going to...
2019-03-08
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Finding single use plans in the plan cache
A single use plan is an entry in the SQL Server plan cache that was only used once. When a...
2019-03-07 (first published: 2019-02-19)
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Writing my presentation part 1: The brainstorm/dump
For this session, I’m relying on a mixture of previous blog posts and new material/demos that I’ll have to write....
2019-03-07
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Writing a new session/Preparing for SQL Saturday Chicago
So, I’m presenting a session at SQL Saturday Chicago on March 23, 2019. This is a new session, called Performance...
2019-03-06
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CTRL + F in SSMS execution plans
I just discovered this the other day and I had to share it.
First, we need a query in Management...
2019-03-05
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Partitioning 3: Beyond just partition elimination
In Partitioning 2, I showed how to analyze which partitions were accessed by our Index Seek. However, we were searching...
2019-03-04 (first published: 2019-02-14)
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It’s always parameter sniffing: Line Endings
Combining a few themes of recent posts today. I’ll mix in some sp_executesql, it’s always parameter sniffing, and the plan...
2019-02-28
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A short guide to sp_executesql
Last week I talked about single use plans. One way to increase execution plan re-use is to parameterize queries by...
2019-02-27
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Partitioning 1: Non-partition aligned queries
Here’s my take on partitioning. I’ll be focusing on getting queries to perform on partitioned tables, and not on partition...
2019-02-27 (first published: 2019-02-11)
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Database context and compatibility level
To add onto yesterday’s post about which cardinality estimator (CE) your query will use, there’s an additional complexity. This specifically...
2019-02-26
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Encoding URLs
I have this data in a table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers