Savepoints and conditional transactions
This is the second in a short series on transactions. In the previous part I discussed nested transactions and showed...
2015-11-20 (first published: 2015-11-17)
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Gail Shaw
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A Mess of Nested Transactions
Transactions are an area that I often find are used badly, or not used at all. Transactions without any error...
2015-11-03
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Of clustered indexes and ordering
There is a particularly irritating and persistent belief that indexes (usually it’s the clustered that gets picked on) are always...
2015-10-26 (first published: 2015-10-20)
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Index selectivity and index scans
There was a question raised some time back ‘If an index is not selective, will the query operators that use...
2015-10-14 (first published: 2015-10-06)
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Repairing a replication subscriber
It’s a question which has come up a couple of times. If a subscriber of a transactional replication publication becomes...
2015-09-22
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Unusual errors with Distributed Replay
I’ve come to really like Distributed Replay in the last couple of years. I’ve used it to do a scale...
2015-09-08
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How not to do a Masters degree
There are many, many guides to successfully completing a post grad degree, so I am not going to add to...
2015-08-11
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Premature Optimisation
Learning how to tune a system is a bit of science and a bit of an art. Gail Shaw gives some guidelines on when you might want to tune and how to go about it so as not to unnecessarily undertake the effort.
2014-09-22
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On the importance of a complete break
If you’re the type who habitually checks work email and thinks about work while on holiday, here’s Gail Shaw's challenge for next time: don’t.
2014-09-01
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But, but, but, my data is clean!
Gail Shaw on the challenges of trying to extract meaningful data from a database containing customers who have the name 'Dummy **DO NOT USE**''.
2014-06-23
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