Supercharge Your SQL Server Scalar Functions By Switching To Table Value Functions
User defined functions in SQL server can cause all kinds of performance problems, there are however some tricks that are...
2019-01-18
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User defined functions in SQL server can cause all kinds of performance problems, there are however some tricks that are...
2019-01-18
259 reads
Scripted Simulation of SQL Server Loads
When blogging, presenting or testing an idea, one issue I constantly have is that my...
2019-01-17 (first published: 2019-01-11)
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I know, I know your data could never possibly have duplicates because obviously, you have all the constraints in place...
2019-01-09 (first published: 2019-01-03)
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I’ve done a few posts on Clustered and Non-Clustered indexes before, what I’ve not however covered and something that is...
2019-01-09
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OK, so profiler isn’t actually dead, it has however been deprecated since 2012 and has had no new features since...
2019-01-07
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Indexing on In Memory OLTP tables is a little different from your traditional on-disk rowstore tables…
In Memory Differences…
There is no...
2018-12-24 (first published: 2018-12-04)
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Since SQL 2012 some really awesome new technologies have been introduced into the engine that are massively underused. Everyone is...
2018-12-19 (first published: 2018-12-03)
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Every language handles null equality differently and understanding this is crucial as a misunderstanding here can lead to some quite...
2018-12-14 (first published: 2018-11-29)
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In the interests of curiosity I’m going to take a query that runs a relatively simple aggregation over a large...
2018-12-10
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Since SQL Server 2014 SP1 we’ve had DMV’s that can support Live Query Statistics (Basically a query plan that gives...
2018-12-06 (first published: 2018-11-24)
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By James Serra
(Shameless plug: The price of my book “Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern...
By Steve Jones
I was working with a customer and discussing how to do error handling. This...
By DataOnWheels
The 14th annual Ability Summit is a global event that I attended a few...
Hi everyone My query works for most cases. There is one edge case where...
Hello, I was given this SQL question and was hoping someone could please help...
In recent days past, there was a Performance gain by placing data files, log...
How does the Resource database in SQL Server 2022 get backed up?
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