PGSQL Phriday #001: Two Truths and a Lie
As a part of my own journey of learning within PostgreSQL, I’ve decided that I’m going to take part in PGSQL Phriday as often as I can, just as...
2022-10-21 (first published: 2022-10-07)
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Grant Fritchey
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DevOps From Redgate
In a few weeks at the PASS Data Community Summit, I’ll be joining several other Redgaters to put on an all-day precon where we take you on a database...
2022-10-14 (first published: 2022-10-04)
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Query Tuning At PASS Data Community Summit
The all new, in-person, PASS Data Community Summit is in just a few weeks. Since I’m shortly going to be publishing a 100% rewritten book on query tuning, I...
2022-10-12 (first published: 2022-09-28)
199 reads
Query Store at PASS Data Community Summit
While Query Store has been out for quite some time now, released in 2016, there’s still quite a lot of missing understanding of what Query Store can do for...
2022-10-11
2 reads
Check Every Metric
Recently, a person asked about the costs differences in an execution plan, referencing them as if they were performance measures. The key to understanding performance is to check every...
2022-10-10
3 reads
Learning New Technology Is Challenging
On nights and weekends, I've been playing with Arduino controllers. I have a couple of projects I'm working through (building a robot that can roll around with "eyes" to avoid obstacles). I've also been trying to work with STM32 controllers, because in a lot of ways, they're more powerful than an Arduino. However, I've hit […]
2022-10-08
104 reads
Function Vs. Performance
Recently I was looking through DBA.StackExchange when I saw a pretty simple question that I decided to answer. I went off, set up a test database and some test...
2022-10-03
19 reads
Why You Need Presentation Skills
And no, the answer is not because you want to be a Microsoft MVP. Multiple surveys have been published over the decades that list “fear of public speaking” as...
2022-09-29
15 reads
Learning PostgreSQL: The Tools
In case you don’t know, I’ve been writing a series of articles over on Simple-Talk as I learn PostgreSQL. It’s all from the point of view of a SQL...
2022-09-26 (first published: 2022-08-01)
260 reads
Look Into Chocolatey
Just a suggestion, but I’d say you should look into Chocolatey. Let me explain why. Sabbatical For those who don’t know I was recently on a six-week sabbatical from...
2022-09-23 (first published: 2022-09-12)
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Blogs
How to find free space in Azure PosgreSQL
I wanted to figure out how big (or approximately how big) my dump file...
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
Compare rows within the same table
I have a table. Structure in script below. I have to compare and see...
Microsoft Recommendations for Update Stats?
I have an application team that is insisting on daily (and for some, weekly)...
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers