If your SQL Server’s tempdb database is heavily used by your application(s), consider locating it on an array of its own (such as RAID 1 or RAID 10). This will allow disk I/O to be more evenly distributed, reducing disk I/O contention issues, and speeding up SQL Server’s overall performance.
2011-08-31
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Total Information Awareness can destroy your sanity. Get used to it.
2011-08-30 (first published: 2009-09-02)
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Part 4 of a series from Matt Perdeck on speeding up your database access. This is a great series for developers. This is based on the book ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets.
2011-08-30
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A report might contain multiple data series on a chart, which can have considerably varying scales but common category groups. In such cases where this a big difference in scales, the data series with the lower scale can become obscured. In this tip we will take a look at how to solve this problem using Chart Areas.
2011-08-30
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Nothing new for many developers, but I still like the way you can maintain the stack throughout the call chain.
2011-08-29
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The sequential nature of early data storage devices such as punched card and magnetic tape once forced programmers to devise algorithms that made the best of sequential access. These ways of doing data-processing have become so entrenched that they are still used in modern relational database systems. There is now a better way, as Joe Celko explains.
2011-08-29
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In this tip you will learn how to design aggregations for a partition and optimize it for performance.
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2011-08-26
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2011-08-25 (first published: 2009-08-26)
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A look at how the OVER clause is changing in SQL 11, based on the CTP 3 released to the public.
2011-08-25
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Package configuration files are a great way of providing the values of SSIS package properties so that packages can be used in a far more versatile way. They make the deployment of SSIS packages easier and can provide parameters that are based on the server configuration, or which change for each runtime. They're easy to understand, especially when explained by Rob Sheldon.
2011-08-25
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By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
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