Indexes on GUIDs – Not Only Fragmentation
A client called us with the following issue:
He had a table of a few dozen million rows. The table had...
2015-08-03 (first published: 2015-07-27)
2,755 reads
Columnstore Indexes at PASS Performance Palooza: Recording and Materials
Yesterday I participated in PASS Performance Palooza.
I had a lot of fun delivering my session Columnstore Indexes – Questions and Answers.
The...
2015-07-24
556 reads
Speaking about Columnstore Indexes at PASS Performance Palooza
The PASS Performance Virtual Chapter has a tradition of yearly “Palooza events”, in which there are a few back-to-back online performance...
2015-07-21
490 reads
Can a SQL Server Table be Too Small?
Everyone’s talking about “Big Data”, huge tables and data explosion right?
Can we have a problem of a table that is...
2015-06-26 (first published: 2015-06-16)
3,512 reads
24 Hours of PASS: The Data Loading Performance Presentation – Slide Deck and Scripts
Thanks to everyone who attended my 24 Hours of PASS session, The Data Loading Performance Presentation.
It was a lot of...
2015-06-25
670 reads
Speaking at 24 Hours of PASS: Growing Our Community
24 Hours of PASS is just around the corner, and I’m happy to say that this time I’ll be speaking...
2015-06-18
564 reads
The #1 Enemy of Data Loading in SQL Server
Let’s look at the following script:
CREATE TABLE LoadMeFast (Id INT NOT NULL,
InsertDate DATETIME NOT NULL,
ABunchOfLetters NVARCHAR(100)
)
GO
SET NOCOUNT ON
GO
DECLARE...
2015-06-09 (first published: 2015-06-03)
4,057 reads
Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server for the DBA VC
This past Wednesday, I delivered my session, “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” to the DBA Virtual Chapter.
The session covers...
2015-05-29
1,417 reads
How to Find Objects that Contain a Certain String in SQL Server
Let’s say you remember a piece of code you need to optimize or take a look at, but you don’t...
2015-05-13
623 reads
Make Sure to Schedule Your SQL Server Replication Jobs
You setup SQL Server Replication and everything looks fine. Rows are flowing between the servers and you think you’re done.
Right? Wrong..
At...
2015-05-04 (first published: 2015-04-22)
5,398 reads
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