@dschelte

Life is not an IPhone and knowledge does not fall from the Apple tree. Hates Apple for fun, loves SQL Server and Windows Phone (RIP).

 Flevoland, Almere
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Joined June 2008
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Reading: Choose the Second One ift.tt/HqaYnMl #sqlserver

Choose the Second One

I wonder if any of you have ever tried this. When faced with a problem, think of a solution using whatever comes to mind. For most of us in the data space, this is a SQL-based solution, hopefully a…

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Reading: Done, but never finished ift.tt/JBtKakx #sqlserver

Done, but never finished - SQLServerFast.com

You can accuse me of many things. Lack of ambition is not on that list, though. Nor is speed of execution. In 2017, I made the decision that SQL Server execution plans needed better documentation. I...

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Reading: Advice I Like: Time and Focus ift.tt/ZsAM6DP #sqlserver

Advice I Like: Time and Focus

“You don’t need more time because you already have all the time that you will ever get; you need more focus.” – from Excellent Advice for LivingBoy, I wish I had more time. As I get older, I …

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Reading: Slow Queries: A Field Guide to Eight Species ift.tt/8YpeOdi #sqlserver

Slow Queries: A Field Guide to Eight Species

A field guide to slow queries: eight species raised in the lab on SQL Server 2025, each with its plan silhouette, its call, and its look-alike.

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Reading: [Video] Talking Pronouns in Alaska ift.tt/X9IUewj #sqlserver

[Video] Talking Pronouns in Alaska - Brent Ozar Unlimited®

This episode is entirely dedicated to just one question, and it’s not a technical one. MidwestDBA asked, “When Randolph West left Microsoft, you wrote ‘They’re leaving MS’. While it was clearly just...

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Reading: Embeddings and Vectors: The Map of Meaning ift.tt/y0o9XVK #sqlserver

Embeddings and Vectors: Interview Answers - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

Embeddings and vectors for data interviews: what an embedding is, cosine against Euclidean, and whether you need a separate vector database.

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Reading: Power BI Fun With Travels ift.tt/5iM9bD6 #sqlserver

Power BI Fun With Travels

I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new countries (for me and my wife) and many new cities as we cruised around the Adriatic. We also had a chance to see our daughter, who…

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Reading: The Perils of Secondary Metrics in SQL Server ift.tt/HskOVXR #sqlserver

The Perils of Secondary Metrics in SQL Server | Darling Data

SQL Server insights from Erik Darling — performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization. Free scripts, plus training courses and consulting.

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Reading: Why’s This Query So Slow in Prod? Check sp_BlitzPlanCompare. ift.tt/zcE3MD8 #sqlserver

Why's This Query So Slow in Prod? Check sp_BlitzPlanCompare. - Brent Ozar Unlimited®

You’re testing a query, and you’re just not getting the same performance between the development and production servers. There’s a huge list of common things that might be causing it: Parameter...

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Reading: Why the Version Store won’t clear if any database has open transactions ift.tt/6SJx7M3 #sqlserver

Why the Version Store won't clear if any database has open transactions | Darling Data

SQL Server insights from Erik Darling — performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization. Free scripts, plus training courses and consulting.

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Reading: The Query Optimizer Interview: Twenty Minutes, No Hints ift.tt/ncEpYGh #sqlserver

The Query Optimizer Interview: Twenty Minutes, No Hints

The query optimizer answers for itself: the index it ignored, the first impression it never revisits, and the moment it gave up.

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Reading: AI Stories and Thoughts ift.tt/rgZfbIB #sqlserver

AI Stories and Thoughts - Paul S. Randal

iAI is obviously the hot new thing and prognostications for the future range from the unicorns-and-rainbows life of idleness for us all to the post-apocalyptic killer robots hunting down the cowering...

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Reading: I’m Probably Not Supposed To Show You Microsoft’s Auto-Indexing Tool. ift.tt/d5o4x6q #sqlserver

I'm Probably Not Supposed To Show You Microsoft's Auto-Indexing Tool. - Brent Ozar Unlimited®

This needs to just stay between you and me, okay? Microsoft’s been working on automatically indexing SQL Server databases. No, not that Azure SQL DB feature, but one that actually works on-premises,...

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Reading: SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 91 ift.tt/n6FjeEm #sqlserver

SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 91 | Darling Data

SQL Server insights from Erik Darling — performance tuning, indexing, and query optimization. Free scripts, plus training courses and consulting.

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Reading: The Understudy: A Story About the Human in the Loop ift.tt/UjYnGXl #sqlserver

The Understudy: A Story About the Human in the Loop

Fiction. The understudy is the person paid to stay ready to take over from a system that never stops, and to stay able to do it by hand.

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Reading: The SQL Advisor: Seven Answers, All Measured ift.tt/FuWxK43 #sqlserver

The SQL Advisor: Seven Answers, All Measured

The SQL Advisor answers seven letters with measurements instead of opinions: table variables, index cost, shrinking, SELECT star, heaps and two myths.

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Reading: Video training – new release, big update, and Black Friday sale ift.tt/IDvZF3y #sqlserver

Video training - new release, big update, and Black Friday sale - SQLServerFast.com

Three months have passed since my previous update on the SQLServerFast Execution Plan Video Training. But I have been working very hard in those three months, and I can now make a few big announcem...

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Reading: Deadlock or Just a Queue? Sunday SQL Puzzle ift.tt/2OAtxZN #sqlserver

Deadlock or Just a Queue? Find the Wait Cycle

Deadlock or just a queue? Follow three sessions and two resources to find the wait cycle without blaming the bystander.

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Reading: AI in Production Without a WHERE Clause ift.tt/wWvcZYS #sqlserver

AI in Production Without a WHERE Clause

AI in production without a review step sits one missing WHERE clause away from a long night. Where the brake belongs and who holds it.

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Reading: Know Your Wait Types: Six Profiles, All Induced ift.tt/xavpu9k #sqlserver

Know Your Wait Types: Six Profiles, All Induced

Six wait types, each one induced deliberately on SQL Server 2025 and profiled: what it is blamed for, what it means, and the numbers it produced.

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