Fine Tuning Production SQL Servers

SQL Performance Tuning - optimizing for response time

Different  queries are optimized for different objectives
Response Times and Throughput are two standard objectives.
Response Time is about retrieving the  hits...

SQL Server 2012 FileTable – Part 2

In this weeks blog post we will have a look at how easy it is to combine FileTables and FullText...

SQLInspire NYC 2011 Videos available

There are some FANTASTIC videos of the sessions from SQLInspire New York 2011.  I highly recommend that you check out...

Stop PIPA & SOPA

I’m not going to black out my blog, because, let’s face it, who’s going to notice? But for all six...

Update Statistics and the new TraceFlag 2371

What comes first, the chicken or the egg? What happens first – update statistics or re-compilations?

The Statistics life cycle
As a regular...

When Date Modified changes for Sql mdf/ldf files

*This is related to physical file size of a MDF or LDF file not internal allocation.
One of our user asked...

Why It’s Called a User Group…

On Tuesday night was the first meeting for PASSMN, the SQL Server User Group in Minneapolis/St. Paul this year.  As...

#SQLThursday is here

Struggling to source quality free content on SQL Server? Finding it difficult to fill the void between #TSQL2sDay and Un-SQL...

A Trio of Functions

I found myself perusing an execution plan the other day.  I know, big surprise there.  This execution plan showed me some interesting things I had never really paid much...