TempDB memory leak?
I found a bug where I’m seeing TempDB use more memory than it should on multiple versions of SQL Server, especially on servers set up with common best practices. There’s a...
2016-01-05
11 reads
Simple SQL Server
Query the Buffer Pool
DBAs are known for asking for more memory, but often can’t say what’s in memory. While I agree that many...
2016-01-07 (first published: 2016-01-04)
2,708 reads
Query the Buffer Pool
SQL Server's buffer pool is a majority of your memory, but most DBAs can't tell you what's in it.
2016-01-04
15 reads
Thank You for More Than You Realize
Blogging and presenting have changed me for the better, and in ways I didn’t see coming. However, I know I wouldn’t...
2015-12-28
687 reads
Thank You for More Than You Realize
Blogging and presenting have changed me for the better, and in ways I didn’t see coming. However, I know I wouldn’t have had them if it wasn’t for three things. Getting...
2015-12-28
5 reads
Advent of Code – Day 4
Day 4 of the Advent of Code has us mining for data in MD5 hashes, which is out of the...
2015-12-24
547 reads
Advent of Code – Day 4
Day 4 of the Advent of Code has us mining for data in MD5 hashes, which is out of the comfort zone for a SQL DBA to say the...
2015-12-24
3 reads
Advent of Code – Day 3
Continuing with the language-independent code challenge on Advent of Code – Day 3, I’m tasked with figuring out how well a...
2015-12-24
512 reads
Advent of Code – Day 3
Continuing with the language-independent code challenge on Advent of Code – Day 3, I’m tasked with figuring out how well a drunken elf can guide Santa to houses. Since...
2015-12-24
10 reads
Advent of Code
If you want your skills to be sharp, you practice. If you want to get yourself to actually do practice,...
2016-01-04 (first published: 2015-12-23)
1,545 reads
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers