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Sep17

Your Index Rebuild Maintenance Plan Is Rebuilding Indexes Nobody Uses

Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Maintenance Plan, SQL Index, SQL Statistics
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Your index rebuild maintenance plan takes four hours every Sunday, fills the log and delays the backup. It may be buying you far less than everybody assumes.

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Sep16

AI Execution Plan Analysis: I Gave It My Plan and Asked What Was Wrong

Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Parameter Sniffing, Recompile, SQL Statistics
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I handed AI a plan with no warnings and healthy numbers, yet it read five million rows to return seventeen. That is the real test of AI execution plan analysis.

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Sep15

Y2K: The Work Behind “Nothing Happened”

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
DBA, Y2K
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Y2K did not end in worldwide disaster. Its repairs, failures, and recoveries show why, and what database teams can learn about proving maintenance matters.

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Sep14

Fermat Left a Note in a Margin. Other People Spent 358 Years Finishing It.

Pinal Dave
AI
Mathematics
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That note kept mathematicians busy for the next three and a half centuries. Let us talk about what Fermat left in a margine.

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Sep11

Every Database Has These Seven Tables

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Humor
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Walk into any company, open the production database, and you will find the same seven tables. Nobody planned it, and I have personally created four of them.

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Sep10

NOLOCK Can Miss Rows: The Order That Was Never Missing

Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Lock, SQL Transactions
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Yes, NOLOCK can miss rows. A row can vanish from your report while it sits safely in the table. Nobody deleted it. The read simply walked past it.

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Sep9

Everyone Expected AI to Come From the Big Companies

Pinal Dave
AI
Professional Development
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Everyone expected AI to come from the big companies. The research did come from their labs, but the products did not, and the reason is not talent or budget.

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Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 24 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.

Pinal has authored 19 books and 125 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.

Pinal is also a CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1) and CrossFit Level 2 Trainer (CF-L2).


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