Combating the CXPacket Wait Type
Often, when DBAs are looking at total wait statistics on the servers they manage, CXPacket is at or near the top of...
2015-03-24 (first published: 2015-03-17)
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Often, when DBAs are looking at total wait statistics on the servers they manage, CXPacket is at or near the top of...
2015-03-24 (first published: 2015-03-17)
7,425 reads
When Fusion IO burst onto the scene in 2007, offering a PCIe card that was said to be able to...
2015-03-16 (first published: 2015-03-10)
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Imagine this scenario: One of your servers just crashed, and you open a ticket with Microsoft for them to perform...
2014-11-06
1,849 reads
Databases and newborns have a lot in common. They both require constant care. They both require constant monitoring. They also...
2014-10-20 (first published: 2014-10-14)
7,018 reads
A while back I had written a post about why I’m excited about Hekaton (now called ‘In-Memory OLTP’ – not sure...
2014-09-22 (first published: 2014-09-17)
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In one of SQL Server Central’s recent daily newsletters, Steve Jones’s editorial was inquiring whether or not anyone has been...
2014-03-06
1,152 reads
If you work in IT, the office becomes your second home. It’s where we make a living, and most of...
2014-03-11 (first published: 2014-02-28)
2,951 reads
I’m just a little late to the party, but no time like the present, right? I plan to be very...
2014-02-15
627 reads
That guy or gal over there going on and on about spindles and IOPS – that’s your SAN admin. For the...
2014-02-17 (first published: 2014-02-12)
1,619 reads
If you administer a SQL Server Reporting Services server, chances are you’ve had users complain the report manager is loading...
2013-11-07
3,659 reads
By DataOnWheels
Over the past couple of months, I have started losing my ability to talk...
By Steve Jones
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If you've ever wrestled with complex SQL code, you know the drill. Hours spent...
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I have a job running each night starting at 4:30AM and usually finishing at...
hi guys, I have a partitioned table AM_ITM_INSTNC_MSS and I want to get...
Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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