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Day: June 17, 2026

Matching Queries to Indexed Views

Published 2026-06-17 by Kevin Feasel

Erik Darling has a new video:

Erik Darling here with Darling Data, and in today’s video we’re going to continue on the Learn T-SQL voyage that we have started, and I’m going to talk today a little bit about indexed view matching, because SQL Server is, let’s just call it a mature, or an experienced database engine, and is quite capable, at least in Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, you do not pay the Microsoft Friendship Tax, so you will be taxed performance-wise, but is quite capable of matching base queries to an indexed view where the syntax matches in some way between them. So, usually exactly between them, not in some way, usually pretty close to just about what you would ask for.

Click through for several tips and, as you experience the frustration of consistently trying to make best use of the view’s index, be glad you’re not trying to get filtered views to work.

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Automating Azure SQL DB Tasks without SQL Agent

Published 2026-06-17 by Kevin Feasel

Garry Bargsley solves a problem:

Many routine administrative tasks that have traditionally been handled by SQL Agent still need to be performed:

  • Scheduled stored procedures
  • ETL processes
  • Report generation
  • Data cleanup
  • Monitoring and alerting
  • Business process automation

However, Azure SQL Database does not include SQL Agent.

Garry provides several solutions, and I would add to it third-party job scheduling solutions. Granted, that’s usually an extra expense (whether due to fees or supporting a roll-your-own solution), but it’s on the table. And some of them are better than what SQL Agent has to offer, even if I do like the fact that there’s an okay option built-in for DBAs.

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Moving Fabric Notebooks between Workspaces

Published 2026-06-17 by Kevin Feasel

Gilbert Quevauvilliers takes advantage of source control:

With the new Lakehouse Auto-Binding capability in Notebook Git integration, Fabric can now intelligently preserve and resolve the binding between your notebooks and their attached Lakehouses as you move them across workspaces. This makes true multi-environment development and CI/CD workflows in Fabric significantly smoother and more reliable.

I am going to show you how to do this in the blog post below.

That is pretty nice, and Gilbert has a demo of the process, showing that it’s not particularly onerous

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Goodbye, SQL ConstantCare and Consultant Toolkit

Published 2026-06-17 by Kevin Feasel

Brent Ozar breaks the news:

About ten years ago, I sketched out an idea for a different kind of SQL Server monitoring tool: one that gathered data just once per day, and gave you a short email with a specific list of actionable tasks to make a difference in health and performance.

Richie Rump did an amazing job of building SQL ConstantCare out in the years since, building a solution that was rock-solid and scaled well to terabytes of monitoring data. Every day, we sent thousands of emails for SQL Servers around the world.

This month, we shut off sales and began decommissioning it. Here’s why.

Click through for the reasons. Brent is still maintaining the First Responder Toolkit, so things like sp_Blitz will still be around. But I will miss the quarterly graphics of who’s using which versions of SQL Server, even if I always had to give the “This is a biased sample and may not be indicative of the entire population, but it’s still an interesting and informative sample” spiel each time.

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