Holy Foreign Keys and Indexes
This article shows an interesting issue with foreign keys and how they are aligned with the base tables in SQL 2005 SP 4.
2011-10-10
5,809 reads
Articles
A Performance Troubleshooting Methodology for SQL Server
When healing a sick SQL Server, you must forget the idea that there could ever be a simple correspondence between symptom and disease: The art of troubleshooting is much more the art of discovering, and assembling, the various pieces of the puzzle so that you have a complete understanding of what is going on inside of a server.
2011-10-10
6,098 reads
The 2011 SQLServerCentral Party at the PASS Summit
Once again SQLServerCentral is hosting a party at the PASS Summit in Seattle on Oct 11 at the Washington State Convention Center. Read about how you can get tickets.
2011-10-07 (first published: 2011-09-06)
2,416 reads
Writing Maintainable Code
Writing maintainable code is hard. It must be understandable, testable and readable. Any one of these can be tricky, and together they seem pretty daunting. Thankfully, Michael Williamson makes it look easy to become a code craftsman.
2011-10-07
4,478 reads
Automatic Alert Generation in the event of SQL Server Cluster Failover
We had a requirement where we were asked to generate automatic email notification in the event of a failover.
2011-10-06
4,697 reads
2011-10-06 (first published: 2009-12-02)
9,359 reads
SQL Server Tables without a Clustered Index
It is a general best practice to have a clustered index on all of your SQL Server tables. Unfortunately, not everybody knows that. This tip helps you find tables that do not have a clustered index.
2011-10-06
4,921 reads
Meet the Red Gate Team this month
Find out where you can meet the Red Gate team in the US, ask a question, get a custom demo, and maybe a prize as well.
2011-10-05
1,374 reads
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.101
Get information about the objects in your database using these ANSI standard, multi-platform views.
2011-10-04
6,947 reads
2011-10-04 (first published: 2009-11-26)
11,114 reads
Blogs
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
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Having Issue deploying a report to an on prem server from PowerBI desktop
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SQL 2019 instance with AG, across 2 Windows 2016 OS servers - OSin-place upgrade
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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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