SQL Server: Performance Tuning :Understanding Set Statistics IO output
Performance tuning is one of the important task of DBA. Many times people comes to us with different types of...
2013-07-24 (first published: 2013-07-16)
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Blog Posts
Understanding Contained Database in SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 supports contained databases and partially contained databases, which provide a high degree of isolation from the database...
2013-07-24
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A Vacation and Traveling to Sacramento
I’ve got a couple days off, starting today after my webinar on Preparing for When Disaster Strikes. I’ve got some...
2013-07-23
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Are You the Primary Replica?
UPDATED -- Jul 3, 2015 -- To verify database exists, per comments by Konstantinos Katsoridis. Thanks for finding the bug!
In my recent adventures...
2013-07-23
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Gap issue in SQL Server 2012 IDENTITY column
Found a gap issue when using IDENTITY column in SQL Server 2012, every time I restarted sql server service, the current...
2013-07-23
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I Learned Something From You
I learned something from you – that was something someone said to me at the end of a recent consulting engagement....
2013-07-23
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Moving Files with Open Source Software, cURL and winSCP
Open Source, ON WINDOWS!
I’m still stunned in this day and age that people pay obscene amounts of money on tools...
2013-07-23
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Moving Files with Open Source Software, cURL and winSCP
Open Source, ON WINDOWS! I’m still stunned in this day and age that people pay obscene amounts of money on tools that are easily replaced in most cases with...
2013-07-23
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Query to Find "Update" Dependencies on a Table or View (SQL Server 2012)
The built-in dependency finder in SQL Server Management Studio does not provide the ability to distinguish between dependencies that are...
2013-07-23
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SQL Server : Understanding Differential Change Map (DCM) Page and Differential Backups
In our earlier posts, we have discussed about different types of pages.Data Pages, GAM and SGAM,PFS page and IAM page. In this...
2013-07-23
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Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
Forums
Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization vs. Parameter Sniffing: What SQL Server Fixes and What It Doesn't
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Hyperscale Replicas I
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The End of Summer
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Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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