Join us for a look at how SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) provides detailed performance data for Oracle environments, allowing DBAs to solve complex performance issues in less than four steps.
2020-06-24
Phil Factor on the fill factor, pages splits and index fragmentation, and how SQL Monitor can help you decide if a custom fill factor for certain indexes might help alleviate performance issues.
2020-06-24
Use T-SQL to analyse the usage of all variables and parameters in an SSIS project, including the identification of any unused variables and parameters.
2020-06-23
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Discover how to estimate the cost of a query. Read on to see an example of how to extract the Estimated Cost for execution plans stored in the procedure cache.
2020-06-23
Could you spare 3 minutes to help us out at SQL Server Central/Simple Talk? Take this short survey, tell us about who you are and why you come to Simple Talk/SQL Server Central, and you could win a $50 Amazon voucher.
2020-06-23
Introduction In response to my approach in the pop...
2020-06-22
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Table variables can cause performance issues with joins when they contain a large number of rows. In SQL Server 2019, Microsoft has improved how the optimizer works with table variables which can improve performance without making changes to your code. In this article, Greg Larsen explains how this feature works and if it really does make a difference.
2020-06-22
Phil Factor demonstrates a cunning way to test stored procedures or functions, such as after refactoring, by storing the 'before' and 'after' results in views and then using SQL Data Compare to spot any discrepancies.
2020-06-22
You want to check for corruption, but you don’t want to slow down your primary production server. In this post, I’m specifically talking about offloading the corruption checking process. I’m not talking about doing corruption checking on both the primary and other servers – that’s wonderful, and if you’re doing that, you should hug yourself. You’re doing a good job. Who’s a good dog? You are! Good dog.
2020-06-19
Distributed workforces have very quickly become the norm. The 2020 State of Database Monitoring survey explores the impact of remote working on estate management and how organisations are responding. You can read the full findings in the free report, here.
2020-06-19
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
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Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
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If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?
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