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  • The ‘B’ in B-Tree – Indexing in SQL Server

    The ‘B’ in B-Tree – Indexing in SQL Server

    April 4, 2016

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    Derik Hammer

    Some people advocate we should count by twelve rather than ten. This is because you can easily count the twelve segments of your fingers…

  • DBCC CLONEDATABASE

    DBCC CLONEDATABASE

    March 29, 2016

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    Derik Hammer

    Often I hear developers claim that they need production data in order to properly tune their queries. There are a couple of reasons that…

  • Everything has a cost

    March 15, 2016

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    Derik Hammer

    Too often we end up in a conflict while trying to explain how a minimally impacting function has no true business impact. If you are…

  • T-SQL Tuesday #74 – Be the change (MERGE static data)

    T-SQL Tuesday #74 – Be the change (MERGE static data)

    January 12, 2016

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    Derik Hammer

    Each month, on the first Tuesday of the month, the announcement for the blog party T-SQL Tuesday comes out. Those that are interested then…

  • Keeping up with changes to Books Online

    Keeping up with changes to Books Online

    January 5, 2016

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    Derik Hammer

    Keeping up with new features of SQL Server can be a challenge. What is even more challenging, though, is keeping up with changes to…

  • Adding Your Entire Enterprise into Red-Gate SQL Multi Script Distribution List

    Adding Your Entire Enterprise into Red-Gate SQL Multi Script Distribution List

    August 11, 2015

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    Derik Hammer

    RedGate sells a product call SQL Multi Script. The product allows you to asynchronously execute T-SQL scripts to large quantities of servers. There are…

  • The end of an era

    April 10, 2015

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    Derik Hammer

    Today is my last day working for Liberty Tax Service. Liberty took a chance on me when I was fresh out of the Navy…

  • Active sessions and block duration

    Active sessions and block duration

    January 28, 2015

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    Derik Hammer

    As a DBA, we all need the ability to take a quick glance at the currently active processes on our servers. A lot of…

  • Availability Group fail-over test with PowerShell

    Availability Group fail-over test with PowerShell

    December 3, 2014

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    Derik Hammer

    I have a number of SQL Server Availability Groups in my organization. Of them, most are multi-site configurations for disaster recovery. Naturally, the latency…

  • A first timer’s lessons learned at PASS Summit 2014

    November 12, 2014

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    Derik Hammer

    Me, as a #sqlfirsttimer Just one year ago I didn’t know what the PASS Summit was. What came after has been a series of serendipitous events. I…

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