Canadian SQL Saturday speaking events
I am pleased to announce that I will be speaking at two separate SQL Saturdays in March and April of this year. The first event… Read More »Canadian SQL Saturday speaking events
I am pleased to announce that I will be speaking at two separate SQL Saturdays in March and April of this year. The first event… Read More »Canadian SQL Saturday speaking events
(This post was updated on 5 February 2022.) A few months ago I suggested that the following settings should be the default for most SQL… Read More »Proposed SQL Server defaults: disable priority boost
(This post was updated on 5 February 2022.) A few months ago I suggested that the following settings should be the default for most SQL… Read More »Proposed SQL Server defaults: disable lightweight pooling
(This post was updated on 5 February 2022). A few months ago I suggested that the following settings should be the default for most SQL… Read More »Proposed SQL Server defaults: cost threshold for parallelism
Last time we looked at the four major components of a computer system, and then looked at the SQL Server buffer pool as a way… Read More »When the buffer pool isn’t just in memory
I have been selected to speak for a second time at SQLBits, which is being hosted in Manchester UK this year from 27 February to… Read More »Speaking at SQLBits in March 2019
Today we’ll begin taking a look at the buffer pool in SQL Server and how it’s normally used. Before we dive too deeply into the… Read More »How does the buffer pool work?
A few months ago, Microsoft announced that SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) will no longer include the visual Database Diagrams feature from v18.0 onward. [Edit:… Read More »Database modelling in a post-SSMS world: dbForge Studio
It’s January 2019 as I write this. I realized that I started on my journey with SQL Server in 1998, and I wanted to look… Read More »Back to the future
I consider Blob Storage to be the gateway drug to Azure, because it’s a really easy way to get going with offsite backups. One of… Read More »AzCopy finally gets a sync option, and all the world rejoices
It’s the last post of 2018, and in years past I’ve recapped the year that has just been. This is a little different however. I… Read More »Giving thanks in 2018
I am still amused by terminology in the Information Technology field. Words like “Kubernetes,” “containers,” and the BASIC keywords PEEK and POKE, all bring a… Read More »Infrastructure matters, even in the Cloud
While working on my Swart’s Ten Percent Rule post last week, I needed to test the Windows version of the script on my SQL Server… Read More »Some databases may show a NULL collation in the sys.databases DMV
My friend Michael J. Swart has a rule of thumb he calls Swart’s Ten Percent Rule. If you’re using over 10% of what SQL Server… Read More »Flagrantly ignoring the 10% rule
On 1 December 2018, Microsoft is increasing Azure subscription prices in Canadian dollars by 5%. The following is taken directly from the email I received… Read More »Price increase for Azure in Canadian dollars