Most of the time when I talk about or demo Extended Events, I spend more time talking about query tuning (I have a problem). However, there are tons of...
2022-07-05
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I've just finished working in my fourth shared work space. I am not a fan. The endless hallways with all these little glassed in rooms where I can see everyone, and everyone can see me, are not my favorite places. I can see white boards with content that maybe I shouldn't be seeing. There are […]
2022-06-25
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Hello all. I know most of you are still working within SQL Server. However, a few of you are become more like me, hybrid data managers, working in more...
2022-06-13
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As I’ve been working more with PostgreSQL, I’ve found that I’m basically pretty happy just issuing SQL commands to get work done. However, it’s handy to have an actual...
2022-06-06
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This week I was honored to be able to attend, and present a session at, SQLDay in Wroclaw Poland. I fell in love with Poland the very first time I attended this event, so I look forward to any time I can go again. This year, Pavel Potasinski presented the keynote: The Evolution of the […]
2022-05-14
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For the longest time, we didn’t have one of the most useful tools for monitoring SQL Server behavior, but I just found out that, indeed, you can use Extended...
2022-05-11 (first published: 2022-05-02)
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TLDR: There ain’t one. I was privileged last week to be able to present a couple of sessions at the SQL Server and Azure SQL Conference (great event, I...
2022-04-18 (first published: 2022-04-11)
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Two years ago at the start of the pandemic, I wasn’t feeling great about things. I saw that quite a few others weren’t all that thrilled about how things...
2022-04-04
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This week was the MVP Summit. As was the case for the last couple of years, the event was entirely virtual. We were shown a bunch of new and interesting things by Microsoft. We were able to talk to each other and to the engineers at Microsoft. I'm honored that I've been an MVP and […]
2022-04-02
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I have long been a fan of Azure Data Studio, but one shortcoming has kept me from truly adopting it: Query Plans in Azure Data Studio. Sure, there was...
2022-03-21 (first published: 2022-03-07)
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I wanted to figure out how big (or approximately how big) my dump file...
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
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Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
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