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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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
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
Starting SQL Server 2014, it is possible to use memory optimized table variables. These are table variables declared using a table type which is memory optimized. Memory optimized table...
2016-05-15
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SQL Server configuration parameter “optimized for ad hoc workloads” can be very useful when you execute lots of single use ad hoc statements or dynamic SQL statements by reducing...
2016-05-15
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In SQL Server, concurrent writes or read / write to the same page can lead to PAGELATCH (like PAGELATCH_EX and PAGELATCH_SH) waits or what is knowns as PAGELATCH contention....
2016-05-15
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In SQL Server, for insert into select statements, when the target for insert into is temporary table, the select statement can execute in parallel. When the target is table...
2016-05-15
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By Vinay Thakur
SQL Server Management studio is now can be installed separately not part of SQL...
By James-Serra
Almost lost in all the announcements from Ignite was a bunch of amazing new...
For those who don’t know, last week was the PASS Summit. It’s an amazing...
Hi Friends, I'm using SQL 2014, Everything works fine I gave the following error...
Hi, I configured the Basic Alwayson setup in two of the test SQL standard...
In the below SQL statement (also attached as DOC file) it has been...
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