Random Blog Post Challenge
OK, for no particular reason at all or maybe because I had too much food at lunch or just because...
2017-03-02
395 reads
Grant Fritchey
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
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Confusion of An Old Technologist
As someone who still actively pursues a career in technology, I’m a little on the older side. I got started...
2017-02-23
409 reads
Estimated Costs of All Queries
One question constantly comes up; What should the Cost Threshold for Parallelism be? The default value of 5 is pretty...
2017-02-22 (first published: 2017-02-20)
2,485 reads
Approaching Politics in IT
The news cycle seems to be dominated by discussion of politics. Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, the talk of politics is inescapable and is probably going to lead to you being displeased with your fellow man. Luckily, we work in IT, so we can avoid politics. BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Politics goes way beyond […]
2017-02-20
126 reads
Does Query Store Pre-Allocate Space
I love the questions I get while I’m presenting because they force me to think and learn. The question in...
2017-02-14 (first published: 2017-02-07)
1,498 reads
Export All Plans From Cache to a .SQLPLAN File
I was asked if there was an easy way to export all the plans from cache to a .SQLPLAN file....
2017-02-13
861 reads
Still Grateful to Rodney Landrum
So, my blog got hacked. They edited the page where I thanked Rodney for all that he did. I had...
2017-02-06
439 reads
I have been hacked
I’m working on securing the blog. Please stand by. Apologies for any inconvenience or confusion.
The post I have been hacked...
2017-02-05
598 reads
SQL Server Execution Plans, Second Edition by Grant Fritchey
Every Database Administrator, developer, report writer, and anyone else who writes T-SQL to access SQL Server data, must understand how to read and interpret execution plans. This book leads you right from the basics of capturing plans, through how to interrupt them in their various forms, graphical or XML, and then how to use the information you find there to diagnose the most common causes of poor query performance, and so optimize your SQL queries, and improve your indexing strategy.
2017-02-02
19,126 reads
Scheduling Statistics Maintenance in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
The power and capabilities of Azure SQL Data Warehouse are pretty amazing. However, it’s still basically SQL Server under the...
2017-01-25 (first published: 2017-01-18)
1,107 reads
Blogs
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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