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How To Get Rid Of NOLOCK Hints Forever

How To Get Rid Of NOLOCK Hints Forever



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A Little About Working With Binary and Varbinary Data In SQL Server

A Little About Working With Binary and Varbinary Data In SQL Server



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A Little About Cardinality Estimation Feedback In SQL Server 2022

A Little About Cardinality Estimation Feedback In SQL Server 2022



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A Little About Optimizer Timeouts In SQL Server

A Little About Optimizer Timeouts In SQL Server



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Help! My Query Runs Too Long To Get An Actual Execution Plan!

Help! My Query Runs Too Long To Get An Actual Execution Plan!



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If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that, and need to solve database performance problems quickly. You can also get a quick, low cost health check with no phone time required.

PASS Summit Week! Day Five: Mama, I’m Coming Home

It’s PASS Summit Time!


This week, I’m dedicating all my blog content to PASS Summit. Why? Because I’m here and it seems stupid to not talk about that.

Oh dear, it’s Friday, and I’ve got a plane to catch. I suppose I should post some thoughts from the week. Hey, has anyone seen my sneakers?

All updates will be under this line. Hit refresh once in a while. Enjoy the show.

Livefeed!


What a great week here in Seattle. The conference was a grand whirlwind of catching up with old friends as usual, but I was really wowed by the number of first time attendees.

If you missed the announcement, Red Gate said during their keynote that there will be a bunch of mini-PASS events coming up too. If the main thing keeping you away from Seattle is travel, I’d encourage you to check out the others when they happen. They’ll be happening in Dallas, NYC, and Amsterdam. I’ll be at as many as they’ll have me for. Speaking to many attendees, they say that if they weren’t local to the area they’d never be able to go. This may be your chance to get involved in a far more convenient location.

It can be difficult to describe the value of attending these things, and I’m somewhat terrible at marketing pitches. But what has struck me over the years is that I’ve become friends with everyone I started off idolizing. It’s quite an exceptional community that has been built up over the years and events like these make me happy and honored to be a part of it.

Every time someone says hello, thanks me for something, wants to take a picture, and especially when they seek me out to ask me a question, it really reinforces the reach that being a part of this community gives. It doesn’t take much to share something that helps many people in great ways.

Anyway, my place is taking off. See you all next time around.

Going Further


If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that, and need to solve database performance problems quickly. You can also get a quick, low cost health check with no phone time required.

PASS Summit Week! Day Four: Desperately Seeking Lunch

It’s PASS Summit Time!


This week, I’m dedicating all my blog content to PASS Summit. Why? Because I’m here and it seems stupid to not talk about that.

It’s Thursday, and it’s time for my regular session: Everything You Know About Isolation Levels Is Wrong.

That’s from 15:45 to 17:00PM in the Terrace Suite. Come by and laugh at Average NOLOCK Enjoyers with me.

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Going Further


If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that, and need to solve database performance problems quickly. You can also get a quick, low cost health check with no phone time required.

PASS Summit Week! Day Three: Erik Haunts The Halls

It’s PASS Summit Time!


This week, I’m dedicating all my blog content to PASS Summit. Why? Because I’m here and it seems stupid to not talk about that.

Hey, it’s finally Wednesday. That means I can sleep in and have nothing to do but annoy people around the convention center.

All updates will be under this line. Hit refresh once in a while. Enjoy the show.

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Going Further


If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that, and need to solve database performance problems quickly. You can also get a quick, low cost health check with no phone time required.

PASS Summit Week! Day Two: There Are Still More Precons.

It’s PASS Summit Time!


This week, I’m dedicating all my blog content to PASS Summit. Why? Because I’m here and it seems stupid to not talk about that.

Since it’s Tuesday, that means me and Kendra are… still teaching all day. Like yesterday, everything will get updated as time allows.

All updates will be under this line. Hit refresh once in a while. Enjoy the show.

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Alright, doing better on this today. The first step is remembering to do it.

Here are some fun pictures!

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If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that, and need to solve database performance problems quickly. You can also get a quick, low cost health check with no phone time required.

PASS Summit Week! Day One: Precons, Precons, and More Precons

It’s PASS Summit Time!


This week, I’m dedicating all my blog content to PASS Summit. Why? Because I’m here and it seems stupid to not talk about that.

Since it’s Monday, that means me and Kendra are teaching all day. I will partially be blogging updates as time allows.

All updates will be under this line. Hit refresh once in a while. Enjoy the show.

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It turns out that teaching all day doesn’t give you much time to update blog posts.

SQL Server performance tuning precon
Day One Got Done

The class me and Kendra did on performance tuning internals went fantastic, and the nice folks at Red Gate remembered my birthday.

SQL Server Birthdday
Sugar Buzz

We had about 70 people show up. Great questions (the answers were pretty stellar too, if I do say so myself), and absolutely no post-lunch nappers.

Anyway, it’s 6am here in Seattle while I’m updating this a day late. I have a second precon to do some prep work for.

Thanks for reading!

Going Further


If this is the kind of SQL Server stuff you love learning about, you’ll love my training. I’m offering a 75% discount to my blog readers if you click from here. I’m also available for consulting if you just don’t have time for that, and need to solve database performance problems quickly. You can also get a quick, low cost health check with no phone time required.