I’m at the Microsoft MVP Summit in Redmond, Washington this week. This is a great event for learning from the folks building amazing new technology at Microsoft, giving feedback and representing the community, and meeting and learning from other MVPs from around the world.
Identifying that a query plan has been bossed around in Query Store can be a bit tricky, because it can appear in different ways.
I’m thrilled to have just finished and published a new course on Automatic Tuning in SQL Server. This feature is available in SQL Server 2017+ and Azure SQL Database.
Update: this course is now open and totally free to all.
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At least, not right now.
I’m honored to be heading to the Microsoft MVP Summit. I really enjoy this conference– it’s not my first time going, so I know the ropes. I’m looking forward to seeing a bunch of old friends AND to connect to lots and lots of new people.
But even though I am familiar with the conference, I have a list of things I do to get ready and prepare. That’s because…
This week, I was pretty pumped to see that PASS published Erin Stellato (twitter) and Dejan Krakovic’s (linked in) excellent session on Query Store to the public.
I attended this session live at the conference, and I remembered that there was one specific part on memory limits in Query Store that I wanted to watch again. I’d jotted down a note about it, but things were flying by and my note was gibberish.
I got a great question about transactions by email recently about transactions.
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