(Pinal Dave) The journey of consulting is always a fun one with lots of learning. Recently during the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I had a great conversation about how to disable Parameter Sniffing and DISABLE_PARAMETER_SNIFFING Query Hint.

(Grant Fritchey) The single most important thing to remember about Extended Events is that this functionality is not simply a replacement for Profiler/Trace, but a whole new tool with new functionality.

(Mircea Dragan) There are situations when we need the structure of a SQL Server database and database objects for further processing. For example, when we want to create a skeleton of the database in a different location (i.e. computer, SQL Server, etc.), or when we want to make sure that the databa

(Pinal Dave) SQL Server 2019 is indeed very well made software by Microsoft. Recently, I have a very interesting situation while working with SQL Server 2019, which I had not faced before about OPTION(FAST N). While busy with Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I did not have access to

(Sergey Gigoyan) In some cases, a SQL Server database occupies much more space than actually is used by the data or would ever be used. In such situations, it would be optimal to reduce the size of the database and return the storage space to the operating system.

(Esat Erkec) SQL AS keyword is used to give an alias to table or column names in the queries. In this way, we can increase the readability and understandability of the query and column headings in the result set.

(Kenneth Fisher) I realized in my last #PowershellBasics post that I was talking about running a file and passing in an optional parameter but I didn’t describe how to do it. I decided that it was a distinct enough task that I’d make it it’s own post, so here we go.

(Pinal Dave) Yesterday, I had asked a very simple question on twitter about the top reasons for the slow performance. I had received a lot of interesting answers and perspectives on that topic. Lots of people also sent me a detailed email as they thought there is not enough space to type the answer

(Daniel Janik) Have you ever needed to bulk edit a table from excel to change it into a group of insert statements or change multiple query lines?

(Manoj) While working on some data analysis I saw one Spark SQL query was not getting me expected results. The table had some good amount of data, I was filtering on a value but some records were missing.