Execution Plan Shortcoming in Extended Events
I use Extended Events almost exclusively for capturing query metrics. They are the most consistent and lowest cost mechanism for...
2018-04-26 (first published: 2018-04-16)
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The Scary DBA
Privacy and Protection, By Design
With all the noise about the upcoming enforcement of GDPR, I know that people are starting to focus more on...
2018-04-11
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GDPR, Database Backups, and the Right to be Forgotten
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating, there is no cause for any kind of panic when it comes...
2018-04-20 (first published: 2018-04-09)
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Buggy Whips 2.0
I recently found myself rereading a very old blog post of mine, from the very beginning of this blog, discussing...
2018-04-02
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YouTube Channel Update: March 30, 2018
Hey everyone!
Here’s the latest stuff on my new YouTube Channel. Please let me know if these videos are helpful. Also,...
2018-03-30
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Query Store and Automated Cleanup
Query Store has mechanisms for automatically cleaning your data. It is possible to cause them to break down. While presenting...
2018-03-26
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Query Monitoring and the GDPR
I’ve been reading the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and discussing the ramifications of the beginning of enforcement with lots...
2018-03-28 (first published: 2018-03-19)
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Execution Plans and the GDPR
What? Execution plans and the GDPR? Is this it? Have I completely lost it? Well, no, not on this topic,...
2018-03-12
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Every Single Execution Plan is an Estimated Plan
All the execution plans are estimated plans. All of them. There fundamentally isn’t any such thing as an “Actual” plan.
Where...
2018-03-14 (first published: 2018-03-05)
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YouTube Channel Update
Hey! Here’s the latest on my YouTube Channel. Click on through and subscribe. I’ll be doing lots of stuff on...
2018-03-02
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers