Sort – Is it Really a Blocking Iterator?
SQL Server has two types of execution plan iterators: Blocking and Non-Blocking.
A non-blocking iterator gets rows in and sends rows...
2014-10-30
1,302 reads
Track My Query Utility
Were you ever in a situation where you ran a query, it ran for a long time and you didn’t...
2014-10-06 (first published: 2014-10-01)
7,553 reads
How to Make Sure Your Clients Can Connect to a Multi-Subnet Cluster
When you set up a multi-subnet cluster, whether it’s a Failover Cluster Instance or an Availability Group, you need to...
2014-09-29
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My SQLBits Session Recordings
Last month, I had the pleasure of presenting two of my favorite sessions at the SQLBits conference in Telford, UK.
A few days...
2014-08-28
1,025 reads
Announcing SQL Server Radio – English Edition!
About a year and a half ago, I approached Guy and asked him if he wanted to start a podcast...
2014-08-14
1,395 reads
The Real Reason You Should Be a Proactive DBA
If you’re reading this, you probably think, like me, that SQL Server is an awesome product. One of the great...
2014-08-11
1,378 reads
Things You Can Find in the Plan Cache at SQLBits
On Saturday, I had the pleasure to present my session, “Things You Can Find in the Plan Cache”, at SQLBits!
Thanks to...
2014-07-19
434 reads
Goodbye Microsoft, Hello New Adventure
About two months ago, after two and a half years, I left Microsoft.
Microsoft is an amazing place to work for. It’s...
2014-07-17
472 reads
Goodbye Microsoft, Hello New Adventure
About two months ago, after 2.5 years, I left Microsoft.
Microsoft is an amazing place to work for. It’s conformable, balanced,...
2014-07-17
553 reads
The 3 Factors That Will Get You a Job You’ll Love
It’s T-SQL Tuesday time, and this month’s host, Boris Hristov (blog|twitter) chose the topic of interviews.
Over the time as a...
2014-05-13
714 reads
Blogs
Simple Talks Episode 9–Data masking and subsetting
By Steve Jones
The episode on data masking and subetting is out. You can see it here:...
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Avoid Perfect for Good Enough
By Brian Kelley
I'm listening to Effortless by Greg McKeon (link to author's page) through Audible.com. He...
Book Review – Humanizing Data Strategy by Tiankai Feng
This book was making its rounds on social media, and the concept seems interesting...
Forums
DBATools in a agent job
Hi Dbatools is used to copy table data from domain a to domain b...
SQL server help (converting rows to columns)
I am using the following sql to convert rows into columns for each pid,...
Ingesting Data From REST API endpoints: Data Engineering with Fabric
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Ingesting Data From REST API...
Question of the Day
The Hash Join I
What are the two inputs called to a hash join operation in SQL Server? (choose 2)
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