Do I Need to Master PowerShell?
As a SQL Server DBA, do you need to be a master of PowerShell scripts? In this 9 minute episode, I talk about how much you need to know...
2017-09-12
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As a SQL Server DBA, do you need to be a master of PowerShell scripts? In this 9 minute episode, I talk about how much you need to know...
2017-09-12
3 reads
MANAGING ‘NOISY NEIGHBORS’ IN SQL SERVER If you’ve been managing databases for any length of time, you’ve probably had to contend with the “noisy neighbors” scenario. In this scenario,...
2017-02-10
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2016-10-18
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2016-07-22
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2016-06-02
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With SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups, when you configure a secondary in synchronous-commit mode for read-only access, there can be data access latency. If you make changes to your...
2016-05-15
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SQL Server creates and maintains statistics for temporary tables, which lead to better cardinality estimation and optimal execution plan generation. Table variables have no statistics, which can result in...
2016-05-15
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When it comes to lock waits, one of the important information we need to know is which statement waited for locks and how long. This is possible with extended...
2016-05-15
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Query Post Execution Showplan event is a very useful event to find problematic queries and execution plans based on CPU usage or duration while analyzing performance issues. It can...
2016-05-15
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In SQL Server, Filtered Statistics can improve cardinality estimation, i.e. when joining lookup table, or while joining fact table and dimension table. For this reason, SQL Server supports the...
2016-05-15
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By Steve Jones
I love Chicago. I went to visit three times in 2023: a Redgate event,...
By Brian Kelley
I have found that non-functional requirements (NFRs) can be hard to define for a...
You can find the slidedeck for my Techorama session “Microsoft Fabric for Dummies” on...
Testing with AG on Linux with Cluster=NONE. it was all going ok and as...
Hi, I have two tables: one for headers with 9 fields and another for...
We're trying to understand how quick new versions of SQL server can be. Obviously...
Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers