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
286 reads
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)
2,328 reads
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)
2,990 reads
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
242 reads
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
400 reads
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)
2,901 reads
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)
2,269 reads
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)
3,215 reads
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
294 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)
3,455 reads
Blogs
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Setting PK Names in Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
A customer was testing Redgate Data Modeler and complained that it auto-generated PK names....
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
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Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers