How to Grant Permissions Only on the Replica in Database Mirroring and AlwaysOn AG
You work with Database Mirroring or AlwaysOn AG, and you want to make sure your end users work only on...
2016-03-03
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Things I learned in 2015
Happy 2016!
I continue my tradition of summarizing the things I learned in the past year (as a reminder, here’s what...
2016-01-25
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How to Solve the Tail Insert Problem
In the previous post, we talked about when you should use identity/sequence as a clustered index key and when it’s...
2016-01-19
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When Should You Use Identity as a Clustered Index Key?
A few days ago, while delivering my session, The Data-Loading Performance Presentation, I was asked when, performance-wise, Identity should be...
2015-12-28 (first published: 2015-12-16)
3,809 reads
My PASS Summit 2015 Recap
A few days ago I returned from PASS Summit 2015 (and a vacation I took afterwards). Here’s my recap: I...
2015-11-22
669 reads
Scripts and Slide Deck: The Data Loading Performance Presentation at PASS Summit
I have just finished delivering my session, The Data Loading Performance Presentation at PASS Summit 2015. It went very well,...
2015-10-30
1,058 reads
Things You Need To Know about Nolock
Nolock is not the Satan, but no an angel too
Surfing the web you will find articles saying that Nolock is...
2015-10-26
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Database Mirroring Isn’t Going Anywhere
AlwaysOn Availability Groups is a great technology that centralizes the management of High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Scale-Out. However, in...
2015-09-24
1,312 reads
Speaking at SQLSaturday Oslo
This weekend, I’ll hop on a plane and fly over to Norway for SQLSaturday Oslo.
I’ll be delivering a session I...
2015-08-26
760 reads
Why You Should Care About Microsoft APS and Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Last week, I gave a presentation about SQL Server’s data warehouse capabilities, and specifically about APS (Analytics Platform System) and...
2015-08-19
1,121 reads
Blogs
Why is shrinking IT budgets a good thing?
Each year around this time, companies enter the familiar ritual of budgeting. For many,...
Reverse Engineering a Physical Model Diagram
By Steve Jones
I recently wrote about a logical diagram with Redgate Data Modeler. That was interesting,...
Prepping for Certification, Part 3 of ?
By Brian Kelley
After I have understood the details for a certification test (part 1), including format...
Forums
Best analysis approach to reduce data type length in multiple tables
Hello SSC, I hope everyone is having a happy and safe holiday season! I...
Do you separate data/log files and TempDB files on different disks using AWS EC2
Hello, I am receiving multiple direction on deploying SQL Servers in AWS EC2. ...
Service account being in local admin in AWS EC2 environment?
Hello, I am working with a company on their database administration. I am trying...
Question of the Day
A New Operator
In SQL Server 2025, what does this code return?
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