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"2021-11-16T03:31:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-8202-70c0-8ef8-45af493ebf94", "title": "No Running at the Resource Pool", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2021/11/05/no-running-at-the-resource-pool/", "published_at": "2021-11-05T20:54:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-8202-70c0-8ef8-45af49568cbb", "title": "Zombie Transactions Ate my Database", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2021/08/31/zombie-transactions-ate-my-database/", "published_at": "2021-09-01T01:00:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-8202-70c0-8ef8-45af4a255d88", "title": "Fixing Queues with Watermarks", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2021/06/30/fixing-queues-with-watermarks/", "published_at": "2021-07-01T02:35:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-8202-70c0-8ef8-45af4a72b99a", "title": "A Doodled Intro to the Storage Engine", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2021/05/05/a-doodled-intro-to-the-storage-engine/", "published_at": "2021-05-05T14:04:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c50d-8202-70c0-8ef8-45af4b0a6203", "title": "Finding a 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"01a0c527-9a14-726d-bc49-213a3b87331a", "title": "The Half Apply Query", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2020/01/20/the-half-apply-query/", "published_at": "2020-01-20T18:49:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-9a14-726d-bc49-213a3c53071e", "title": "Cost of a Query", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2020/01/13/cost-of-a-query/", "published_at": "2020-01-13T11:49:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-9a14-726d-bc49-213a3d1e85ab", "title": "Aggregate Operators, Visualized", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2019/10/28/aggregate-operators-visualized/", "published_at": "2019-10-28T23:23:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-9a14-726d-bc49-213a3e0a0c8d", "title": "Grokking the Paul White Parallel Deadlock Demo", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2019/09/30/grokking-the-paul-white-parallel-deadlock-demo/", "published_at": "2019-09-30T09:00:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-9a14-726d-bc49-213a3eecada1", "title": "The Curious Case of the Insert Deadlock", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2019/08/26/the-curious-case-of-the-insert-deadlock/", "published_at": "2019-08-27T00:44:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-9a14-726d-bc49-213a3f16e50f", "title": "Performance Impact of Small Queries", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2019/06/25/performance-impact-of-small-queries/", "published_at": "2019-06-25T12:58:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-9a14-726d-bc49-213a3f353def", "title": "Round Robin Hunting", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2019/06/12/round-robin-hunting/", "published_at": "2019-06-12T16:18:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-9a14-726d-bc49-213a401bd8de", "title": "Percentage Non Grata", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2019/05/03/percentage-non-grata/", "published_at": "2019-05-03T13:25:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-9a14-726d-bc49-213a4058c300", "title": "Debugging Dataflow", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2019/04/29/debugging-dataflow/", "published_at": "2019-04-30T03:02:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-9a14-726d-bc49-213a408a1cd0", "title": "Two Easy ASYNC_NETWORK_IO Demos", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2019/03/11/two-easy-async_network_io-demos/", "published_at": "2019-03-11T16:40:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c532-d3c5-71ca-bb42-ef55739a3f21", "title": "Slow Reports for Query Store", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2019/02/27/slow-reports-for-query-store/", "published_at": "2019-02-27T18:25:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c532-d3c5-71ca-bb42-ef55745f00b1", "title": "The Three Physical Joins, Visualized", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2019/02/10/the-three-physical-joins-visualized/", "published_at": "2019-02-11T02:03:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c532-d3c5-71ca-bb42-ef5574ac2f54", "title": "So is NOLOCK Actually Faster?", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2019/01/21/so-is-nolock-actually-faster/", "published_at": "2019-01-21T19:49:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c532-d3c5-71ca-bb42-ef557522a79d", "title": "Gotta Cache ‘Em All: Query Store Survey", "url": 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"01a0c532-d3c5-71ca-bb42-ef5577f64519", "title": "Powershell to Search for Trace Flags", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2018/09/06/powershell-to-search-for-trace-flags/", "published_at": "2018-09-06T17:08:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c532-d3c5-71ca-bb42-ef5578106b9d", "title": "Do Spills Get Logged?", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2018/08/24/do-spills-get-logged/", "published_at": "2018-08-24T20:17:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-74c4-710b-b7a2-2c3f11ac02a1", "title": "The Longest Row", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2018/08/14/the-longest-row/", "published_at": "2018-08-14T15:15:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-74c4-710b-b7a2-2c3f128b4fcb", "title": "USE PLAN and Compile Time", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2018/07/31/use-plan-and-compile-time/", "published_at": "2018-07-31T15:18:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-74c4-710b-b7a2-2c3f1382dcbe", "title": "How to Use the USE PLAN Hint", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2018/07/19/how-to-use-the-use-plan-hint/", "published_at": "2018-07-19T20:27:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-74c4-710b-b7a2-2c3f146af2cd", "title": "A Plus Puzzle", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2018/07/10/a-plus-puzzle/", "published_at": "2018-07-10T18:51:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53d-74c4-710b-b7a2-2c3f1524379f", "title": "That Awkward First Post", "url": "https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2018/07/10/that-awkward-first-post/", "published_at": "2018-07-10T11:23:45+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Don’t Worry, AI Only Has Read Permissionsoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2026
It’s Here: AI Query Tuningoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2026

2025

Are Bigint Splits a GUID Idea?original ↗
29 Sept 2025
Cardinality in a Shared Membership Queryoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2025
PSA: Adaptive Joins are Immoraloriginal ↗
13 Jul 2025

2024

Why are Columnstore Key Lookups Badoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2024
Solving Timeouts by Making Queries…Worse?original ↗
12 Jun 2024
Included Columns Cause Log Bloatoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2024

2023

Missing Index Hints and the Abominable Rebuildoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2023

2022

Thoughts on RLS for Data Migrationoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2022
A Distinct (Query) Murder Mysteryoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2022
Left and Right Deep Hash Joinsoriginal ↗
16 May 2022

2021

The Top/Max Transformationoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2021
No Running at the Resource Pooloriginal ↗
5 Nov 2021
Zombie Transactions Ate my Databaseoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2021
Fixing Queues with Watermarksoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2021
A Doodled Intro to the Storage Engineoriginal ↗
5 May 2021
Finding a Spinlock Owner in a Dumporiginal ↗
6 Apr 2021
Reasoning about Indexed View Lockingoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2021
Reverse Engineering the Key Lookup Cost Formulaoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2021
Parse Time vs Compilation Timeoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2021
How to Measure Compilation Impactoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2021
Giant IN Lists of Doomoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2021

2020

An Empirical Look at Key Lookupsoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2020
Avoiding Sorts with the $PARTITION Functionoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2020
What’s the Difference between CXPACKET and CXCONSUMERoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2020
HT Waits – Explained and Animatedoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2020
MAXDOP is a Lieoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2020
A Poem for Flow Distinctoriginal ↗
28 May 2020
Sparse Stats Surpriseoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2020
The Half Apply Queryoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2020
Cost of a Queryoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2020

2019

Aggregate Operators, Visualizedoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2019
Grokking the Paul White Parallel Deadlock Demooriginal ↗
30 Sept 2019
The Curious Case of the Insert Deadlockoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2019
Performance Impact of Small Queriesoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2019
Round Robin Huntingoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2019
Percentage Non Grataoriginal ↗
3 May 2019
Debugging Datafloworiginal ↗
30 Apr 2019
Two Easy ASYNC_NETWORK_IO Demosoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2019
Slow Reports for Query Storeoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2019
The Three Physical Joins, Visualizedoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2019
So is NOLOCK Actually Faster?original ↗
21 Jan 2019

2018

Gotta Cache ‘Em All: Query Store Surveyoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2018
Cascading Deletes – Cardinalityoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2018
Cascading Delete Troublesoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2018
Debugging for Trace Flagsoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2018
Too Many TempDB Datafiles?original ↗
28 Sept 2018
Powershell to Search for Trace Flagsoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2018
Do Spills Get Logged?original ↗
24 Aug 2018
The Longest Roworiginal ↗
14 Aug 2018
USE PLAN and Compile Timeoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2018
How to Use the USE PLAN Hintoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2018
A Plus Puzzleoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2018
That Awkward First Postoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2018