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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Gavin Draper
Introducing ChaosLoad
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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SQL Server Removing Duplicates
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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Waiter Waiter There's an Index in my Index
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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Profiler Is Dead, Long Live Extended Events
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 In Memory OLTP Tables
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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Turbo Charged Staging\Caching Tables With In Memory OLTP
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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SQL Server Guide To NULL Handling
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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SQL Server Adventures In Reducing IO
In the interests of curiosity I’m going to take a query that runs a relatively simple aggregation over a large...
2018-12-10
295 reads
Live Query Stats of Running Queries
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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