My First Technical Job – T-SQL Tuesday #150
I’m late to the party on May’s T-SQL Tuesday, but thought it was an interesting enough topic to be worth a belated blog post. It’s about first technical jobs...
2022-06-05
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I’m late to the party on May’s T-SQL Tuesday, but thought it was an interesting enough topic to be worth a belated blog post. It’s about first technical jobs...
2022-06-05
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This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is about how we look at SQL Server upgrades, hosted by Steve Jones. My experience of SQL upgrades is that they tend to be largely...
2022-02-08
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Sometimes it’s good to look back and appreciate what we have and how far we’ve come. This applies to many things, but today I’m talking about the humble hard...
2022-02-18 (first published: 2022-02-06)
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I recently encountered a requirement to estimate the size of (a lot of) nonclustered indexes on some very large tables due to not having a test box to create...
2021-08-13 (first published: 2021-08-01)
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I recently encountered a requirement to estimate the size of (a lot of) nonclustered indexes on some very large tables due to not having a test box to create...
2021-08-01
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While testing a script that involved calculating index record size recently I was getting some confusing results depending on server version, and after some digging it appears there was...
2021-07-28
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While testing a script that involved calculating index record size recently I was getting some confusing results depending on server version, and after some digging it appears there was...
2021-07-28
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Hopefully not many people are still configuring SSIS instances on SQL 2012 or 2014 – especially HA instances – but if you are, this post is for you. If...
2021-05-28
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Hopefully not many people are still configuring SSIS instances on SQL 2012 or 2014 – especially HA instances – but if you are, this post is for you. If...
2021-05-28
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Blocking in SQL Server can be good – after all, it’s one of the ways consistency is guaranteed – we usually don’t want data written to by two processes...
2021-05-24 (first published: 2021-05-13)
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I recently had to copy an Azure SQL database (SQL db) from one subscription...
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Hi i was surprised to see the approach my coworkers used to sunset talend...
The columnstore index is absolutely different than the traditional rowstore b-tree index. Because of this, it doesn't suffer from the same kind of fragmentation across pages as the b-tree index. Yet, it does suffer from a type of fragmentation brought about by an excess of deleted rows in a rowgroup and a lack of compression of storage because more things are in the delta store. While b-tree indexes use dm_db_index_physical_stats to show fragmentation, which system tables or DMVs can be used in SQL Server (prior to SQL Server 2025) to determine columnstore fragmentation?
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