Throwback Thursday #2: Get Your Speak On!
I hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving with their families. When you come out of that food coma I...
2013-11-28
1,108 reads
I’m A SQL Server Rockstar Blogger!
SQL Server Rockstar Blogger
I have a quick secret to share with my readers. Ever since I saw Tom Larock’s SQL Server...
2013-11-27
1,179 reads
Throwback Thursday #1: SQL Inspire
What Is Throwback Thursday?
One of my hobbies is being a turntablist. In high school I took a job just so...
2013-11-14
827 reads
SQL Server Performance Root Cause Analysis in 10 Minutes
This year I was honored to be selected by Dell Software to present a ten minute session in their booth...
2013-10-15
1,093 reads
What Queries are Causing My Waits?
In my last blog post, I showed you how I go about baselining wait statistics. Typically my next step once...
2013-10-15 (first published: 2013-10-10)
4,260 reads
Finding Top Offenders From Cache
When I start a SQL Server Performance Root Cause Analysis I like to find the top waits and then find...
2013-10-14
1,374 reads
Benchmark SQL Server Wait Statistics
One of the secret weapons in performance tuning with SQL Server is understanding wait statistics. Every time a process (spid)...
2013-10-08
1,968 reads
Learn SQL Server Performance Tuning Basics in a Single Day
Have you always wanted to dig into performance tuning but wasn’t sure where to start? If so, check out this Introduction...
2013-09-04 (first published: 2013-08-28)
2,612 reads
Workload Tuning: Finding Top Offenders in SQL Server 2012
I have to give credit where credit is due. Microsoft has definitely made performance tuning easier in SQL Server 2012. Performance...
2013-08-15 (first published: 2013-08-07)
2,565 reads
First Look: Microsoft SQL Server 2014
Last week at TechEd 2013 in New Orleans Microsoft publicly released details about the SQL Server 2014 CTP 1. Here...
2013-06-11
1,807 reads
Blogs
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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