Indexes on GUIDs – Not Only Fragmentation
A client called us with the following issue:
He had a table of a few dozen million rows. The table had...
2015-08-03 (first published: 2015-07-27)
2,728 reads
Matan Yungman
Columnstore Indexes at PASS Performance Palooza: Recording and Materials
Yesterday I participated in PASS Performance Palooza.
I had a lot of fun delivering my session Columnstore Indexes – Questions and Answers.
The...
2015-07-24
542 reads
Speaking about Columnstore Indexes at PASS Performance Palooza
The PASS Performance Virtual Chapter has a tradition of yearly “Palooza events”, in which there are a few back-to-back online performance...
2015-07-21
471 reads
24 Hours of PASS: The Data Loading Performance Presentation – Slide Deck and Scripts
Thanks to everyone who attended my 24 Hours of PASS session, The Data Loading Performance Presentation.
It was a lot of...
2015-06-25
648 reads
Speaking at 24 Hours of PASS: Growing Our Community
24 Hours of PASS is just around the corner, and I’m happy to say that this time I’ll be speaking...
2015-06-18
545 reads
Can a SQL Server Table be Too Small?
Everyone’s talking about “Big Data”, huge tables and data explosion right?
Can we have a problem of a table that is...
2015-06-26 (first published: 2015-06-16)
3,487 reads
The #1 Enemy of Data Loading in SQL Server
Let’s look at the following script:
CREATE TABLE LoadMeFast (Id INT NOT NULL,
InsertDate DATETIME NOT NULL,
ABunchOfLetters NVARCHAR(100)
)
GO
SET NOCOUNT ON
GO
DECLARE...
2015-06-09 (first published: 2015-06-03)
4,049 reads
Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server for the DBA VC
This past Wednesday, I delivered my session, “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” to the DBA Virtual Chapter.
The session covers...
2015-05-29
1,407 reads
How to Find Objects that Contain a Certain String in SQL Server
Let’s say you remember a piece of code you need to optimize or take a look at, but you don’t...
2015-05-13
567 reads
Make Sure to Schedule Your SQL Server Replication Jobs
You setup SQL Server Replication and everything looks fine. Rows are flowing between the servers and you think you’re done.
Right? Wrong..
At...
2015-05-04 (first published: 2015-04-22)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
Microsoft Recommendations for Update Stats?
I have an application team that is insisting on daily (and for some, weekly)...
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
normal role member to be able to view list of other role members in his DB
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers