A Fond Farewell
If you haven’t guessed from the title, I’m writing this post because I am leaving SQLskills. This Friday, January 14th, is my last day, and
If you haven’t guessed from the title, I’m writing this post because I am leaving SQLskills. This Friday, January 14th, is my last day, and
Last week I presented a session, Demystifying Statistics in SQL Server, at the PASS Community Summit, and I had a lot of great questions; so
Last week I presented a session, Demystifying Statistics in SQL Server, at the PASS Community Summit, and I had a lot of great questions; so
There are multiple methods to remove data from Query Store, both manual and automatic, and I’ve been asked about it several times. I finally took
Query Store Hints provide the ability to add a hint to a statement even if you do not have direct code access.
I wrote the original Query Store performance overhead post just over two years ago, and just like the data in your database keeps changing, so
Have you ever tried to turn off Query Store when there was an issue, and you thought the problem might be related to Query Store,
When I talk about Plan Forcing I always discuss how users should ALTER procedures when using Query Store, and not use DROP and CREATE. This
I recently ran through a health audit for a customer, and in reviewing their system_health output I was reminded of the unnecessary security_error_ring_buffer_recorded event.
If you haven’t experienced database corruption in your SQL Server career and had to pore over DBCC CHECKDB output, you’re a lucky soul. If you
I’ve been meaning to write a follow up post to my original to discuss what life is REALLY like during quarantine. I re-read my original
At some point, whether you’re a DBA, developer, or application administrator, you’re going to find yourself troubleshooting performance in Azure. Within the Azure Portal you
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