Rebind and Rewind in Execution Plans
Ever looked at an execution plan? If you answered no, you can’t possibly have ever tried to tune a query,...
2011-06-15
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The Scary DBA
Time for a Little PD
No, PD doesn’t stand for PowerShell Development. It stands for Professional Development. Sharks either swim or die (and yes, I...
2011-06-13
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SQL Cruise Alaska 2011
Yes, I went on the SQL Cruise to Alaska. Yes, it was as grand as you’ve heard. Yes, I’m going...
2011-06-08
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Optimizer Timeouts with XQuery
I was looking at performance of a database and I noticed a few of the plans were very large and...
2011-05-30
2,119 reads
Oh ****!
Did you ever accidentally close SQL Server Management Studio? And, in closing SSMS, did you get the prompt that says...
2011-05-25
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SQL Azure Query Tuning
SQL Azure is still SQL Server at the end of the day. This means it is entirely possible to write...
2011-05-23
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Summit Preference Voting
This year the PASS organization is asking us to vote on the PASS Summit 2011 sessions, not as a means...
2011-05-18
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PASS Summit 2011 Abstracts
I’ve put in several abstracts for the 2011 Summit. This year we’re voting for preferred sessions. If you’re interested in...
2011-05-10
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SQL Azure Migration Wizard
There’s a project over on code plex to come up with a mechanism for validating databases and generating the necessary...
2011-05-09
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I’ve got 99 Problems, but a disk ain’t one
Tom LaRock has a new meme for Meme Monday. It’s all about the problems caused in your system other than...
2011-05-02
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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
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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