As a developer, if you need to go into the database and write queries, design tables, or determine the configuration of your SQL Server Systems, these tips should help make sure you're not unnecessarily sacrificing database performance. This eBook has 45 easy tips to improve the performance of your indexes and T-SQL queries, and hunt down problems within ORM tools and database design.
2014-01-02 (first published: 2013-11-04)
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Microsoft is releasing SQL Server 2014 with a new set of In-Memory OLTP features to significantly improve the OLTP performance and reduce the processing time for servers with a large amount of memory and multi-core processors. Check out this tip to learn more.
2014-01-02
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Use CMS and Extended Properties to store information about multiple servers, including the stakeholders who should know about any maintenance you are planning.
2014-01-01 (first published: 2010-11-30)
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In this series of short articles, we lift the hood of the SQL Server Optimizer to examine a few of the many clever tricks used to optimize query performance. In Part I, we look at partial aggregate operators – an extremely clever way of downsizing certain large joins into much smaller (and faster) joins.
2014-01-01
3,857 reads
How to use Profiler to generate TSQL scripts that can be modified and automated to run as a server-side trace
2013-12-31 (first published: 2010-12-02)
13,574 reads
Big data is now a standard part of information technology architecture for most large organizations. As a database administrator, with the holiday season upon us, I have the following items and notions on my holiday wish list. Here's hoping that I am gifted one or more of these; each one gives me something that I want or need.
2013-12-31
4,492 reads
Learn how to create and use templates in BIDS in this short SQL Spackle article.
2013-12-30 (first published: 2011-04-21)
11,027 reads
This week Steve Jones looks at a few tools that can help your productivity and links to a few more.
2013-12-30
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There are a few challenges associated with deployments of data services in Windows Azure, focusing in particular on SQL Database. In this article we turn our attention to an actual deployment and migration of locally stored data to SQL Database.
2013-12-30
3,822 reads
This article uses XML to deal with optional parameters along with multiple parameter passed into a stored procedure. (Note: We are re-running this as we had a newsletter issue last week)
2013-12-28 (first published: 2013-12-10)
7,532 reads
A sequential scan is not always a problem — PostgreSQL's planner often chooses one...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an...
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