AI sounds like someone, which is exactly why the checking stops. Cardinal read the cover of my book and has not recovered.
AI Row Count Estimates Come From Nothing
AI row count estimates arrive with tremendous confidence. Cardinal said four hundred. The query returned nine million.
Every Database Has These Seven Tables
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.
Personal Technology – Laptop Screen Blank – No Post – No BIOS – No Boot
Laptop screen blank with no POST, BIOS or boot? Try these simple power reset steps first. They often work when there is no hardware failure.
SQL SERVER – A Funny Cartoon on Index
A Funny Cartoon about a conversation on indexes I hear at nearly every performance tuning job. Indexes do not solve every problem, and here is what else to check.
Stop Blaming the User: Let Constraints Catch Bad Data
Blaming the user is the oldest joke in IT. Here’s why it fails, and how NOT NULL, CHECK, UNIQUE and foreign keys stop bad data before it lands.