IF RDBMS = SQL Server, NoSQL = ???

SQL Server is, arguably, the leading relational database management system out there. With continuous development and enhancement of exciting features...

DBA Resolutions

It’s said that “promises are made to be broken”. Surely database administrators don’t fall in that category? It’s that time...

SQL Server on Linux, first observations.

Is this one of those weird food combinations like honey on pizza or salt and pepper on apples that’s going...

“Witch” Statistics?

Three men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves lost in a canyon somewhere. One of the three...

SQL Server, a true Olympian

Suffering SQL Server Performance Issues?: A story of Olympic sprints and handy SQL Server hints!!!
Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest runner,...

SQL 2012 Identity Columns Feature

Recently, a customer mentioned that they seemed to be missing records in tables they don’t delete from. Generally, at this...

Freaky statistics feature

SQL Server statistics can make things a bit freaky. You might have read one of my previous articles portraying a...

SSMS 2016 – Compare Execution Plans

Microsoft are releasing regular CTP updates for SQL Server 2016. In the very recent release (CTP 2.4), there is a...

No thrills about spills

Statistics, in simplest terms, refer to the distribution of data in a column or index. They are represented in a...

Work of art – the intra query parallelism deadlock graphs

Look at some of the graphs produced by the intra query parallelism deadlocks, below.

Bart Duncan explains this “phenomenon” (bug, rather)...