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.

Twitter: @spaghettidba
Website: https://spaghettidba.com

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TempDB usage per active session

by Gianluca Sartori

SQLServerCentral.com

tempdb

Lists the TempDB usage per each active session.

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2014-09-25 (first published: 2010-12-23)

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Database Free Space Monitoring – The right way

by Gianluca Sartori

SpaghettiDBA

Lately I spent some time evaluating some monitoring tools for SQL Server and one thing that struck me very negatively...

2014-09-05

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Announcing ExtendedTSQLCollector

by Gianluca Sartori

SpaghettiDBA

I haven’t been blogging much lately, actually I haven’t been blogging at all in the last 4 months. The reason...

2014-07-22

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Hangout #18 with Boris Hristov

by Gianluca Sartori

SpaghettiDBA

Yesterday evening I had the honour and pleasure of recording one of his famous SQL Hangout with my friend Boris Hristov (b|t).
We...

2014-04-18

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Uniquifiers: all rows or the duplicate keys only?

by Gianluca Sartori

SpaghettiDBA

Some days ago I was talking with my friend Davide Mauri about the uniquifier that SQL Server adds to clustered...

2014-03-14

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Verdasys Digital Guardian and SQL Server

by Gianluca Sartori

SpaghettiDBA

I’m writing this post as a reminder for myself and possibly to help out the poor souls that may suffer...

2014-02-03

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Non-unique indexes that COULD be unique

by Gianluca Sartori

SpaghettiDBA

In my last post I showed a query to identify non-unique indexes that should be unique.
You maybe have some other...

2014-01-30

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Understanding T-SQL Expression Short-Circuiting

by Gianluca Sartori

SQLServerCentral.com

T-SQL

Understanding the basics of how T-SQL logic works in branching is important to ensure you code works as expected. This article will help you learn how this impacts control of flow language.

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2013-06-21 (first published: 2010-12-30)

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Dealing with custom date formats in T-SQL

by Gianluca Sartori

SQLServerCentral.com

T-SQL

Should I be formatting dates on the database side? What tools can I use in SQL Server to format and parse dates? This article helps you decide which one best suits your needs.