Column Store vs Row Store Indexes
How does a column store index compare to a (traditional)row store index with regards to performance
2016-12-30 (first published: 2015-05-14)
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Brian Ellul
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Tips to Optimize Your SQL Statements - Part 2
Read more tips to optimize SQL statements, specifically on a Data warehouse.
2015-05-07
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Tips to Optimize Your SQL Statements - Part 1
Don't blame SQL Server if your SQL Statements perform badly! But where do you start to investigate the problem? This article is a primer on were to start looking when your SQL runs slowly.
2015-04-28 (first published: 2010-07-29)
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Partitioned Views
A look at Partitioned Views, their advantages, disadvantages backed up by examples and statistics.
2013-12-05
4,589 reads
SSIS Distributed Transactions
This article shows the steps to set-up distributed transactions for SSIS.
2013-11-07
10,756 reads
Improving SSIS Update Performance
This article includes an examination of how I improved update performance. We examine four methods of loading data into a data warehouse.
2013-10-31
9,593 reads
Sub query expressions vs. Joins.
Do sub query expressions introduce a performance penalty on retrieving large data sets?
2012-01-20 (first published: 2010-07-22)
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2010-12-16
11,887 reads
Ways to minimize sort operations
In this article Brian Ellul explorea how it's possible to eliminate the SORT operator (and its performance cost) on performing SELECTS statements.
2010-09-15
12,029 reads
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers