SQL Server: Part 4 : Approaching Database Server Performance Issue
In the last three parts, we have discussed about different queries that can be used to list the current state...
2012-09-26
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SQL Server: Part 3 : Approaching Database Server Performance Issue
In the last post, we have discussed the script to list the sessions which are waiting for resource or currently...
2012-09-24
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SQL Server: Part 2 : Approaching Database Server Performance Issues
In the Part 1, we have seen how quickly we can check the runnable task and I/O pending task on...
2012-09-28 (first published: 2012-09-21)
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SQL Server: Part 1 : Approaching Database Server Performance Issues
When you work as DBA, many people will approach you with a complaint like "Application is taking ages to load...
2012-09-18
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How to Connect PerfMon to a Remote Server ?
Till now, we do not have any third party tool to monitor the SQL server, but we have implemented many custom...
2012-09-17
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SQL Server: String Pattern Matching
It is common scenario that, we might need to extract the data from the SQL server based on some pattern....
2012-09-13
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SQL Server: Understanding GAM and SGAM Pages
We know that SQL server stores the data in 8 KB pages. An extent is made up of 8 physically contiguous...
2012-09-12
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SQL Server : Usage of OVER Clause
Over clause can be used in association with aggregate function and ranking function. The over clause determine the partitioning and...
2012-09-17 (first published: 2012-09-10)
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SQL Server:Output Clause
Couple of days back, one of my colleague came to me asking for help. He is inserting multiple record from a...
2012-09-09
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SQL Server:Understanding the Data Record Structure
In our last post, we have gone through the data page structure and we have noticed that there is an...
2012-08-22
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A Big PK
In SQL Server 2025, how many columns can be included in a Primary Key constraint?
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