SQL Server emergency? Email pinal@sqlauthority.com with URGENT in the subject line.
A GUID primary key can be useful. Learn when a GUID clustered primary key gets expensive, from page splits to index size, and when a bigint key can help.
AI productivity gains went up on every dashboard, and the release notes are the same length as last year’s. Writing code was never the constraint. Speed up one station and you get a taller pile in front of the station that is. Here is how to time your own line.
Tribal knowledge is the part of the job nobody writes down, and it leaves when the person leaves. I sat with a team that could not tell me whether they were allowed to change four lines of billing code. The assistant at the end of the table had read every line and could not say why those lines were there.
Which cable reaches the database? Four coloured cables cross behind a rack. Follow each one to its destination.
AI sounds like someone, which is exactly why the checking stops. Cardinal read the cover of my book and has not recovered.
Text to SQL works now, on real schemas, with joins and window functions. I watched three companies hand it to their business users, and all three quietly stopped. The SQL was never the hard part. The hard part is knowing which table is real and which meaning of the word you meant.
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In my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, you share your screen, I guide you, and we fix your biggest performance troublemakers. No passwords. No remote access.
You keep every script, and the know-how to fix it yourself next time.
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