How to Grant Permissions Only on the Replica in Database Mirroring and AlwaysOn AG
You work with Database Mirroring or AlwaysOn AG, and you want to make sure your end users work only on...
2016-03-03
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Matan Yungman
Things I learned in 2015
Happy 2016!
I continue my tradition of summarizing the things I learned in the past year (as a reminder, here’s what...
2016-01-25
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How to Solve the Tail Insert Problem
In the previous post, we talked about when you should use identity/sequence as a clustered index key and when it’s...
2016-01-19
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When Should You Use Identity as a Clustered Index Key?
A few days ago, while delivering my session, The Data-Loading Performance Presentation, I was asked when, performance-wise, Identity should be...
2015-12-28 (first published: 2015-12-16)
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My PASS Summit 2015 Recap
A few days ago I returned from PASS Summit 2015 (and a vacation I took afterwards). Here’s my recap: I...
2015-11-22
667 reads
Scripts and Slide Deck: The Data Loading Performance Presentation at PASS Summit
I have just finished delivering my session, The Data Loading Performance Presentation at PASS Summit 2015. It went very well,...
2015-10-30
1,057 reads
Things You Need To Know about Nolock
Nolock is not the Satan, but no an angel too
Surfing the web you will find articles saying that Nolock is...
2015-10-26
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Database Mirroring Isn’t Going Anywhere
AlwaysOn Availability Groups is a great technology that centralizes the management of High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Scale-Out. However, in...
2015-09-24
1,311 reads
Speaking at SQLSaturday Oslo
This weekend, I’ll hop on a plane and fly over to Norway for SQLSaturday Oslo.
I’ll be delivering a session I...
2015-08-26
760 reads
Why You Should Care About Microsoft APS and Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Last week, I gave a presentation about SQL Server’s data warehouse capabilities, and specifically about APS (Analytics Platform System) and...
2015-08-19
1,118 reads
Blogs
A Prompt AI Experiment
By Steve Jones
Prompt AI released recently and I decided to try a few things with the...
SQL Server Is Slow (part 1 of 4)
By Kevin3NF
How should you respond when you get the dreaded Email/Slack/Text/DriveBy from someone yelling at...
Scaling PowerShell – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
Recently, I was in a technical interview where the topic of running PowerShell at...
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SQL Server, Heaps and Fragmentation
A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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