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)
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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)
2,737 reads
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
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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
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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)
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Thanks to everyone who attended my 24 Hours of PASS session, The Data Loading Performance Presentation.
It was a lot of...
2015-06-25
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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
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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)
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This past Wednesday, I delivered my session, “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” to the DBA Virtual Chapter.
The session covers...
2015-05-29
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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
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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)
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Each year around this time, companies enter the familiar ritual of budgeting. For many,...
By Steve Jones
I recently wrote about a logical diagram with Redgate Data Modeler. That was interesting,...
By Brian Kelley
After I have understood the details for a certification test (part 1), including format...
Hello SSC, I hope everyone is having a happy and safe holiday season! I...
Hello, I am receiving multiple direction on deploying SQL Servers in AWS EC2. ...
Hello, I am working with a company on their database administration. I am trying...
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