I’m Carla Abanes, working as a full time Senior SQL Database Administrator here in Singapore for an established financial trading firm.

70-457 Reviewer #02, What is Columnstore Index?

Columnstore index is the new type of index introduced in SQL Server 2012. It is a column based non-clustered index...

2013-07-10

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Unlocking “Lock Pages in Memory” Option

Consider this scenario; Your production database server is new and with super configuration of 32 CPUs, 64G RAM, SAN Storage,...

2013-07-08

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It’s Sunday night now, weekend is almost over and was it just a few moments ago that it was Friday?...

2013-07-07

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It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...

Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...

One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...

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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')

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