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The ‘B’ in B-Tree – Indexing in SQL Server
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Some people advocate we should count by twelve rather than ten. This is because you can easily count the twelve segments of your fingers…
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DBCC CLONEDATABASE
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Often I hear developers claim that they need production data in order to properly tune their queries. There are a couple of reasons that…
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Everything has a cost
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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…
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T-SQL Tuesday #74 – Be the change (MERGE static data)
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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…
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Keeping up with changes to Books Online
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Keeping up with new features of SQL Server can be a challenge. What is even more challenging, though, is keeping up with changes to…
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Adding Your Entire Enterprise into Red-Gate SQL Multi Script Distribution List
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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…
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The end of an era
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Today is my last day working for Liberty Tax Service. Liberty took a chance on me when I was fresh out of the Navy…
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Active sessions and block duration
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As a DBA, we all need the ability to take a quick glance at the currently active processes on our servers. A lot of…
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Availability Group fail-over test with PowerShell
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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…
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A first timer’s lessons learned at PASS Summit 2014
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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…