SQL Server Index Maintenance Performance Tuning for Large Tables
This article describes a real-world example of performance tuning index maintenance for a large table of approximately 1 billion rows.
2011-03-30
5,886 reads
Articles
Modifying and deleting extended properties
Continuing the short series on extended properties, this article explains how to turbocharge the creation of extended properties
2011-03-29
12,249 reads
Supporting Large Scale Team Development
With a large-scale development of a database application, the task of supporting a large number of development and test databases, keeping them up to date with different builds can soon become ridiculously complex and costly. Grant Fritchey demonstrates a novel solution that can reduce the storage requirements enormously, and allow individual developers to work on thir own version, using a full set of data.
2011-03-29
3,364 reads
The Mystery Of The Slow Last Row
Things Go South
Recently I was troubleshooting a piece of software that archives data out of a very active import table....
2011-03-29
2,259 reads
Changing Text in Multiple Stored Procedures From a Stored Procedure
In this article Brian Davey present a solution for changing the text in multiple stored procedures using T-SQL.
2011-03-28
11,542 reads
Configuring Kerberos Authentication
Longtime author Brian Kelley brings us a new article on security and Kerberos authentication in SQL Server.
2011-03-28 (first published: 2008-12-11)
63,334 reads
SSRS Reports Performance Debugging and Analysis
SSRS provides a very user friendly way to author and deploy reports. These reports can be accessed from different platforms where the reports are deployed - reports manager, SharePoint, stand-alone / distributed applications or programmatically using SSRS SOAP endpoints. Unfortunately, SSRS / BIDS does not provide any high-end debugging tools such as SQL Profiler for analyzing the performance of SSRS reports. In this tip we will look at different ways of debugging and analyzing SSRS reports performance using execution logs and freeware tools.
2011-03-28
5,640 reads
Statistics, row estimations and the ascending date column
SQL’s auto-updating statistics go a fair way to making SQL Server a self-tuning database engine and in many cases they...
2011-03-28
1,643 reads
The default trace in SQL Server - the power of performance and security auditing
Since the introduction of SQL Server 2005, there is a simple lightweight trace that is left running by default on every SQL Server. This provides some very valuable information for the DBA about the running server, but it isn't well-documented. Feodor Georgiev reveals many of the secrets of this facility and shows how to get reports from it.
2011-03-28
3,896 reads
SQL Server 2008 Service Broker - Conversation Priorities
SQL Server 2008 Service Broker lets you process higher priority messages and conversations earlier than those with lower priority.
2011-03-25
2,326 reads
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Moving On-Prem PostgreSQL to the Cloud: Picking the Right Path for Big Tables
Every PostgreSQL migration eventually hits the same fork in the road. The database is...
A Spread of Vacation
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