Random Blog Post Challenge
OK, for no particular reason at all or maybe because I had too much food at lunch or just because...
2017-03-02
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The Scary DBA
Determining the Cost Threshold for Parallelism
In the previous post, I showed how you can get full listings of your execution plan costs. Knowing what the...
2017-03-09 (first published: 2017-02-28)
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SQL Clone
Today is the launch of SQL Clone, a great new tool that helps you quickly and easily provision SQL Server...
2017-03-06 (first published: 2017-02-27)
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I Don’t Understand
I suspect this may make a few people angry, but I felt the need to share.
I was recently asked to...
2017-03-03 (first published: 2017-02-24)
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Confusion of An Old Technologist
As someone who still actively pursues a career in technology, I’m a little on the older side. I got started...
2017-02-23
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Estimated Costs of All Queries
One question constantly comes up; What should the Cost Threshold for Parallelism be? The default value of 5 is pretty...
2017-02-22 (first published: 2017-02-20)
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Export All Plans From Cache to a .SQLPLAN File
I was asked if there was an easy way to export all the plans from cache to a .SQLPLAN file....
2017-02-13
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Does Query Store Pre-Allocate Space
I love the questions I get while I’m presenting because they force me to think and learn. The question in...
2017-02-14 (first published: 2017-02-07)
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Still Grateful to Rodney Landrum
So, my blog got hacked. They edited the page where I thanked Rodney for all that he did. I had...
2017-02-06
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I have been hacked
I’m working on securing the blog. Please stand by. Apologies for any inconvenience or confusion.
The post I have been hacked...
2017-02-05
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Blogs
How to Run Databases on Kubernetes: An 8-Step Guide
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
Episode 11 of Simple Talks: Oracle
By Steve Jones
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
A New Word: Mornden
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
Forums
Issue with CPU Affinity Configuration on a SQL Server VM with 30 vCPUs
Hello , I'm having an issue with a SQL Server VM that has 30...
What is the best index strategy for a table that gets truncated?
Hi everyone My SSIS package does a bulk insert of csv files into a...
Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers