Gianluca Sartori

Gianluca Sartori is an independent SQL Server consultant and a performance tuning specialist. He has been working in the software industry since 1999 and has been working with SQL Server ever since. Currently he is working as Senior DBA for a famous Italian Formula1 team. Besides consulting projects, he works as a SQL Server trainer and in his spare time he contributes to the SQL Server forums. He is also a speaker at several conferences in Italy and in Europe.

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SQL Server Infernals – Circle 5: Inconsistent Baptists

by Gianluca Sartori

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There’s a place in the SQL Server hell where you can find poor souls wandering the paths of their circle,...

2015-07-23 (first published: 2015-07-17)

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SQL Server Infernals – Circle 3: Shaky Typers

by Gianluca Sartori

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Choosing the right data type for your columns is first of all a design decision that has tremendous impact on...

2015-07-10 (first published: 2015-07-02)

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SQL Server Infernals – Circle 4: Anarchic Designers

by Gianluca Sartori

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Constraints are sometimes annoying in real life, but no society can exist without rules and regulations. The same concept is...

2015-07-07

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SQL Server Infernals – Circle 2: Generalizers

by Gianluca Sartori

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Object-Oriented programming taught us that generalizing is a good thing and, whenever possible, we should do it. Complex class hierarchies...

2015-06-29 (first published: 2015-06-24)

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SQL Server Infernals – Circle 1: Undernormalizers

by Gianluca Sartori

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There’s a special place in the SQL Server Hell for those who design their schema without following the Best Practices....

2015-06-17

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Announcing SQL Server Infernals

by Gianluca Sartori

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Today I’m starting a new blog series called “SQL Server Infernals”.
Throughout this series, I will take your hand and walk...

2015-06-09

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Native Client Aliases don’t like Trailing Spaces

by Gianluca Sartori

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I usually don’t post small things like this, but today I fought with this obnoxious problem long enough to convince me that...

2015-06-02 (first published: 2015-05-26)

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Counting the number of rows in a table

by Gianluca Sartori

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Don’t be fooled by the title of this post: while counting the number of rows in a table is a...

2015-05-25 (first published: 2015-05-18)

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Tracking Table Usage and Identifying Unused Objects

by Gianluca Sartori

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One of the things I hate the most about “old” databases is the fact that unused tables are kept forever,...

2015-04-29 (first published: 2015-04-20)

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How to post a T-SQL question on a public forum

by Gianluca Sartori

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If you want to have faster turnaround on your forum questions, you will need to provide enough information to the...

2015-04-24

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Blogs

Cleaning Up Azure MS Defender Billing

I have a few Azure subscriptions, which are fairly small and not used that...

Installing and Configuring containerd as a Kubernetes Container Runtime

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This post shows you how to install containerd as the container runtime for Kubernetes...

It’s 2026 and I’m retired, so lets get Visual Basic 6.0 to run on Windows 11

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In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows...

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