Understanding indexes and how they work can be complicated enough for a Jr. DBA, but throw in all the different options and properties and an index can soon be overwhelming. Brady Upton takes an introductory look at creating an index in SQL Server using SQL Server Management Studio. He explains what each index property is meant for and the various options presented.
2013-11-19
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Introduction into Locking, Blocking and Deadlocks in SQL Server, and why SQL Server uses these actions.
2013-11-18
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Join Red Gate for a free seminar on December 6 (the day before SQL Saturday Washington DC). Steve Jones and Grant Fritchey, SQL Server MVPs, will present best practices for SQL Server version control, continuous integration and deployment, in addition to showing Red Gate tools in action.
2013-11-18
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Are you a SQL Server DBA who is now being asked to migrate databases to Windows Azure SQL Database (WASD)? Are you a developer who is writing code for a cloud service that shall use SQL Database as the back-end? This blog post is based on issues encountered while supporting customers that were once in your shoes and the lessons learned in the process.
2013-11-18
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New author Nilav Ghosh brings us a performance tuning article to help your queries run better. This article examines how indexes can help reduce blocking.
2013-11-15 (first published: 2009-07-07)
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This article is a whistle-stop tour of my exploration of latches; their different types, their purposes, why they are required and where they fit into the SQL database engine, in the hope it will be interesting and useful to you.
2013-11-15
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Some people set their default database to the database they use most often. This can cause issues when a restore fails.
2013-11-14
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SQL's windowing functions are surprisingly versatile, and allow us to cut out all those self-joins and explicit cursors. Joe Celko explains how they are used, and shows a few tricks such as calculating deltas in a time series, and filling in gaps.
2013-11-14
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In-Memory table or what Microsoft refers to as In-Memory OLTP, or Hekaton is a new type of table is available with SQL Server 2014. In this article Greg Larsen discusses the different types of indexes you can place on your In-Memory tables, and how those indexes support different search criteria.
2013-11-13
2,920 reads
Join Red Gate for a free seminar on November 15 (the day before SQL Saturday Oregon). Steve Jones and Grant Fritchey, SQL Server MVPs, will present best practices for SQL Server version control, continuous integration and deployment, in addition to showing Red Gate tools in action.
2013-11-12 (first published: 2013-10-31)
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