SQL Saturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This event will be held Jul 13 2013 at Grantham-Allee 20, Sankt Augustin, Cologne/Bonn, Rheinland, 53757 , Germany.
2013-07-09 (first published: 2013-07-05)
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Forwarded records in SQL Server can cause performance issues on heap tables because the record outgrows the page and the database engine uses pointers to reference the data. The best practice is to have a clustered index on every table, however, sometimes there are cases when a clustered index is not needed.
2013-07-09
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The continuing drop in the price of memory has made fast in-memory OLTP increasingly viable. SQL Server 2014 allows you to migrate the most-used tables in an existing database to memory-optimized 'Hekaton' technology, but how you balance between disk tables and in-memory tables for optimum performance requires judgement and experiment.
2013-07-08
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This metric returns the number of check constraints that have their is_not_trusted flag set to 1 in the sys.check_constraints table. Untrusted constraints force SQL Server to construct less efficient query plans, because it doesn’t know enough about the kind of data contained in the table. This can point to a data integrity issue which should be investigated.
2013-07-08
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2013-07-05 (first published: 2010-11-23)
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A comprehensive list of trace flags for SQL Server that you can use to configure your server instance.
2013-07-05 (first published: 2010-06-03)
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SQL Server 2012 Integration Services introduces an innovative approach to deploying SSIS projects, known as Project Deployment Model. However, the traditional, package-based methodology remains available and supported, and, in some scenarios, it might be considered more viable, since it allows for separation of SQL Server Database Engine and SQL Server Integration Services.
2013-07-05
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While AlwaysOn and Columnar lookup are good enough reasons to migrate to SQL Server 2012, you need to be aware of the problems associated with certain virtualize environments.
2013-07-04
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Fifty years after starting the 'Art of Computer Programming', Don Knuth is still working hard at the project. It is considered amongst the "hundred or so books that shaped a century of science”. Richard Morris asks him how things are going, and to find out more about his many achievements.
2013-07-04
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In this article, Arshad Ali goes intp detail about how a data warehouse is different from operational data store and the different design methodologies for a data warehouse.
2013-07-03
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By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
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