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Sniffed Nulls and Magic Numbers
I Sniff Your Milkshake Building off of A Simple Stored Procedure Pattern To Avoid, I wanted to talk about a similar one that I see quite often that is not nearly as clever as one would imagine. I goes...
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Query Store And Cruel Defaults
Gosh Darn Now, look, it’s no secret that I think Query Store is cool. Heck, I went and wrote sp_BlitzQueryStore so you can examine it similarly to how sp_BlitzCache looks at the plan cache. For a...
View ArticleUpdated First Responder Kit for January 2019: Extraneous Syllables
Does anyone know what the date really is? I usually don’t, and I often consider how doomed humanity would be if I were the smartest person on the planet during any given era. Anyway, you should go hug...
View ArticleWhen Does SARGability Matter Most?
!erehT iH I know what you’re thinking. Another post about how you should just never do this one thing and all your queries will magically end up faster. Just watch the video. For more reading, check...
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Fast Food Code
Cheap and Easy We’ve all done it. We all know what and where it is, because we’ve probably left a comment for ourselves to go fix it later. It wasn’t me, I swear to myself. Either it was expedient, it...
View ArticleAn Idea For Improving DBCC CHECKDB
Hard Enough At this point, we’ve all probably got a database that’s a terabyte or more in size. If you’re anything like I was, you’ve got a ton of multi-terabyte databases, and the SAN admin has a...
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Why Do Some Indexes Create Faster Than Others?
To warn you ahead of time, this post is an exploration without an answer (yet). There’s some interesting stuff in here, but no conclusions. If that’s not your kind of post, feel free to skip it. If it...
View ArticleDatabase Design Choices To Consider When You’re Worried About Scale
Tipping the Kilter I’m intentionally avoiding physical/hardware choices in this post, like how much hardware to buy, and scaling out vs. scaling up. It’s not that I don’t care about those things — I...
View ArticleThe Pleasure Of Presenting With Joe Obbish
Grouple On At the December 2018 GroupBy I had the honor of co-presenting with one of the smartest guys around, Joe Obbish. Here’s the video of our session, “The Problems With Optional Operators”, and a...
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From The Server To The SAN
Enter SANdman When people buy SANs, it’s often quite a large investment. Whether it’s all SSD, all flash, or there are tiers of storage that different types of data live on, those disks aren’t cheap....
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