Data Compression in SQL Server – Pros and Cons
SQL Server supports row and page compression on tables, indexes and partitions. This can lead to reduced I/O and better performance. However, it can also result in additional CPU...
2016-05-10
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SQL Server Command Timeout – Application Timeout – Attention
When you use ODBC or SqlClient to access data from SQL Server, by default the query will be cancelled if there is no response from the server within a...
2016-05-09
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2016-04-05
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My Best Blog Posts from 2015
ALWAYS LEARNING About mid-way into August of 2015, I learned some important new factors in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) that caused me to make some big changes to the way in...
2016-02-01
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My Best Blog Posts from 2015
ALWAYS LEARNING About mid-way into August of 2015, I learned some important new factors in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) that caused me to make some big changes to the way in...
2016-02-01
11 reads
2015-10-19
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2015-10-05
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2015-09-18
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House Price Predictions @ PASS 2015
The PASS speakers were announced a quite a number of weeks ago now for PASS 2015 in October – and I felt pretty damn honored to be one of the 160 or...
2015-09-07
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House Price Predictions @ PASS 2015
The PASS speakers were announced a quite a number of weeks ago now for PASS 2015 in October – and I felt pretty damn honored to be one of the 160 or...
2015-09-07
7 reads
Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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