Importance of Basics
Riding a bicycle
Imagine riding a bicycle and having zero knowledge how the handlebars are used for direction, how the brakes are applied for friction, how the pedals are used...
2020-04-14
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Riding a bicycle
Imagine riding a bicycle and having zero knowledge how the handlebars are used for direction, how the brakes are applied for friction, how the pedals are used...
2020-04-14
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In my journey with Azure SQL Server I am often asked.1) Why should I move to cloud ?2) Which model should I go for ?3) What do I need...
2019-12-03 (first published: 2019-11-23)
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Let me start with an apology for being missing so long 🙂 Guess was trying to find where technology takes me as I started my journey with pool of...
2019-11-23
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In similar context to my previous blog I'm providing a list of UNIX basic commands which you may find handy...
2016-04-11
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A few months back I came across an instance of using VI Editor. Trust me being a SQL DBA it...
2016-04-09
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In my previous blog we saw the Full-Text Index architecture.
http://sqlandmorewithkruti.blogspot.in/2016/04/all-about-searching-full-text-indexes_7.html
In this blog we shall see its implementation. Before you proceed...
2016-04-13 (first published: 2016-04-08)
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SQL server has the capability to store text-based data in the form of char, varchar, nchar, nvarchar, text, ntext, image,...
2016-04-14 (first published: 2016-04-08)
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SQL server has the capability to store text-based data in the form of char, varchar, nchar, nvarchar, text, ntext, image,...
2016-04-07
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Book References
https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Professional_SQL_Server_2012_Internals_a.html?id=-TjHHnP8ivEC
https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Microsoft_SQL_Server_2008_Internals.html?id=NJUpAQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Microsoft_SQL_Server_2012_Internals.html?id=wK1CAwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
Topic Wise Blogs
32-bit / 64-bit
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jonathan_kehayias/archive/2009/07/07/understanding-the-vas-reservation-aka-memtoleave-in-sql-server.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187499(v=sql.105).aspx
/3GB Switch, /PAE Switch, AWE
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/beatrice/2008/08/29/3gb-pae-and-awe-taking-away-some-confusion/
http://blogs.technet.com/b/marcelofartura/archive/2006/09/14/3gb-pae-awe-what-basic.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/perfguru/archive/2007/12/05/scenarios-using-3gb-and-pae-switch-and-appropriate-uses-of-these-switches.aspx
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/chadboyd/2007/03/24/pae-and-3gb-and-awe-oh-my/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slavao/archive/2005/04/29/413425.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slavao/archive/2005/06/03/424905.aspx
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jonathan_kehayias/archive/2010/10/12/tsql-tuesday-11-misconceptions-enable-awe-on-64bit-sql-servers.aspx
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jonathan_kehayias/archive/2009/08/24/troubleshooting-the-sql-server-memory-leak-or-understanding-sql-server-memory-usage.aspx
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jonathan_kehayias/archive/2009/07/07/understanding-the-vas-reservation-aka-memtoleave-in-sql-server.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189334(v=sql.105).aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175581(v=sql.105).aspx
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/psssql/2009/09/11/fun-with-locked-pages-awe-task-manager-and-the-working-set/
SQLOS / Processes/ Threads/ CPU Models
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlmeditation/archive/2012/12/13/tasks-worker-threads-scheduler-threads-explain-it-all-and-dmvs.aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189267(v=sql.105).aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176043(v=sql.105).aspx
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee210547(v=sql.105).aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-in/library/ms178074.aspx
https://mssqlwiki.com/2013/01/10/sql-server-operating-system-sos-series-1/
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqljourney/2012/12/16/an-in-depth-look-at-sql-server-memorypart-1/
http://www.practicalsqldba.com/2012/07/sql-server-sql-server-scheduler.html
SQL Memory Components
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slavao/archive/2005/03/18/398651.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slavao/archive/2005/08/30/458036.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slavao/archive/2005/02/19/376714.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc293624.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188754.aspx
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176083.aspx
Keep Learning, Keep Exploring, Keep Experimenting
P.S....
2016-03-15
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In the Previous blogs we saw about SQL server logical tree and the various memory caches.
http://sqlandmorewithkruti.blogspot.in/2016/02/memory-fundamentals-for-sql-server-sql.html
In this blog we shall...
2016-03-14
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A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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