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Identifying Recompile Causes

Strictly speaking, a recompile isn’t really a performance tuning problem. In fact, a lot of time, recompiles are desired because they reflect changes in statistics which are likely to...

2022-01-12 (first published: )

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Azure Database for MySQL

SQL Server is not the only database you build and deploy into Azure. Another very popular option is MySQL. Going back many years, this was actually my first database...

2022-01-11

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The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central

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Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server

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Expanding into Print

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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem

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Question of the Day

The String Distance I

In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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