Converting Trace to Extended Events
A walkthrough of a conversion of a SQL Trace setup to an Extended Event session.
2018-06-21
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Articles
In-Memory OLTP – SQL Server In-Memory OLTP Internals Overview
In-Memory OLTP (project “Hekaton”) is a new database engine component, fully integrated into SQL Server. It is optimized for OLTP workloads accessing memory resident data. In-Memory OLTP allows OLTP workloads to achieve significant improvements in performance, and reduction in processing time. Tables can be declared as ‘memory optimized’ to enable In-Memory OLTP’s capabilities. Memory-optimized tables are fully transactional and can be accessed using Transact-SQL. Transact-SQL stored procedures can be compiled to machine code for further performance improvements on memory-optimized tables. The engine is designed for high concurrency and blocking is minimal.
2018-06-21
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2018-06-19
8,367 reads
Databases with MAXSIZE Set
Every DBA needs to appropriately manage database growth. No DBA wants an application to fail because the database is out of space. A database can run out of space a number of different ways. One of those ways is to set the MAXSIZE of a database. When the database grows to the MAXSIZE the database will not grow anymore and if someone tries to add more rows they will get an error saying the database is full.
2018-06-19
2,410 reads
Jobs You Wouldn't Expect To Be Threatened By Tech But Are
Will there be a fair balance between the coming generations of technology and the human workforce? Here is a list of industries that may not think yes.
2018-06-18
1,686 reads
Hyper-V and PowerShell: Shielded Virtual Machines
In Windows Server 2016, Microsoft have implemented a strong security concept called Shielded Virtual Machines. Shielded VMs have been improved in the Windows Server 2019 release. In the second part of this series, Nicolas describes what Shielded Virtual Machines are and how to configure them using PowerShell.
2018-06-18
2,979 reads
Idle Connection Resiliency
Describes the idle connection resiliency feature, which allows ODBC and SqlClient data access applications to maintain their connections to SQL Server 2014 or an Azure SQL Database.
2018-06-18
2,632 reads
Splitting Strings in SQL Server 2016
Comparison of the new methods of splitting strings in SQL Server 2016 to the tried and true methods
2018-06-15 (first published: 2016-04-12)
9,396 reads
How to Tell If Your SQL Server Has Too Much Memory
Brent shows what Perfmon counter to watch after your SQL Server restarts.
2018-06-15
5,646 reads
SQL Server From .Net: Reading SQL Server Metadata in ADO.Net
A basic introduction for developers (or anyone) about reading the metadata of a SQL Server database from a .Net application.
2018-06-14
3,449 reads
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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