Customer Satisfaction Survey Results
In the last couple of months, we sent our first customer satisfaction survey to all our customers. We collected the...
2017-11-18
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Guy Glantser
What is the Role of the UPDATE Lock in SQL Server?
The most common types of locks in SQL Server are the SHARED (S) lock and the EXCLUSIVE (X) lock. The...
2017-11-18
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Something Cool We Learned Today!
We have many customers, and we work on lots of projects. Each project is different in so many ways: the...
2017-11-16
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Can I pause or resume an index rebuild operation?
One of the cool new features in SQL Server 2017 (and currently also in public preview in Azure SQL Database)...
2017-11-16
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Why I Believe in the Data Architecture Review
We have a solution called Data Architecture Review. With this solution, we conduct a complete review of the customer’s data...
2017-10-31 (first published: 2017-10-23)
2,206 reads
Customer Satisfaction Survey
We decided to create a customer satisfaction survey and send it to all our customers. The goal of this post...
2017-09-01
678 reads
Working with Very Large Tables
Recently I presented an online session with the title “Working with Very Large Tables Like a Pro in SQL Server 2016”....
2017-08-14 (first published: 2017-07-26)
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What Do You Do When Performance Sucks?
So you are a SQL Server DBA, and you are responsible for a database, which gives you a hard time....
2017-05-16
566 reads
My Session about SQL Server Parameterization
Last month I presented a session in the wonderful GroupBy online conference about SQL Server parameterization. The title of the...
2017-05-10
558 reads
Availability Group on SQL Server 2016
The Challenge
One of our clients in the gaming industry wanted to set up a high availability solution in their data...
2017-02-01
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers