10 SQL Server Data Warehouse Design Best Practices to Follow (Part 1 )
This past Saturday I had the pleasure of speaking at SQL Saturday #552 here in beautiful Jacksonville, Florida. My good...
2016-05-24 (first published: 2016-05-16)
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Query Store, Forced Plans, and New Plans
I love questions. I recently received one about new plans in the Query Store (available in Azure SQL Database now and in...
2016-05-23 (first published: 2016-05-16)
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RAID your backups
Let’s start with a very brief definition of some RAID levels.
RAID 0 : Stripe your data across multiple disks. Writing a...
2016-05-24 (first published: 2016-05-16)
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Continual Deployment of Visual Studio SqlProj
Unveil the inner workings of the esoteric build system...
As a data professional, I've never worked extensively with msbuild or other...
2016-05-16
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DBA Database scripts are on Github
It started with a tweet from Dusty
The second session I presented at the fantastic PowerShell Conference Europe was about using the...
2016-05-16
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SQL Server – Change in Identity() Property during transactions
Recently while working on a scenario I found that in case of transaction if you are doing insertion operation on...
2016-05-16
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Tempdb Metadata Contention in SQL Server – Table Variable Vs Temporary Table
In SQL Server, the concurrent creation of temporary tables from many sessions can lead to tempdb metadata contention. Tempdb metadata contention does not affect the concurrent creation of table...
2016-05-15
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AlwaysOn Availability Groups Synchronous Replica Readable Secondary Data Access Latency
With SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups, when you configure a secondary in synchronous-commit mode for read-only access, there can be data access latency. If you make changes to your...
2016-05-15
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Seek or Scan – Cost Based Optimizer in SQL Server
When SQL Server has a choice of plans, it will compare the cost among a set of execution plans and will choose the cheapest one. In some cases, even...
2016-05-15
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Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads – SQL Server Configuration Parameter
SQL Server configuration parameter “optimized for ad hoc workloads” can be very useful when you execute lots of single use ad hoc statements or dynamic SQL statements by reducing...
2016-05-15
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 3 (This is the final article in a three-part series...
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SQL Server 2025 section missing?
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A design question in a parent child relationship
I am not sure which is the best way to proceed. I have parent...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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