Identifying large queries using Server Side Traces
Who are your worst offenders? By offenders I mean, queries that are consuming the most resources on your server(s).
I know...
2014-09-17 (first published: 2014-09-11)
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
The Art of Performance Tuning
Performance tuning often gets called an art as people feel that a certain knack or innate talent comes into play....
2014-09-04 (first published: 2014-08-28)
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Website Pulse
Short blog post this time as Website Pulse contacted me a few weeks ago with a few questions about working...
2014-07-31
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Partitioning Basics – Part 3 – Switching Data
This post follows on from Partitioning Basics – Part 2
In this final part, I want to go through how partitions can...
2014-06-24 (first published: 2014-06-20)
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Partitioning Basics – Part 2 – Splitting/Merging Partitions
This post follows on from the previous post Partitioning Basics – Part 1
Let’s have a look at the partitions setup in...
2014-06-12
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Partitioning Basics – Part 1 – Creating Partitions
Partitioned tables can be a quick and efficient way to (amongst other things) archive data. In the next couple of...
2014-06-09 (first published: 2014-06-04)
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Error Log Management
Thought I’d write a quick post about managing error logs within SQL Server. Good error log management is essential for...
2014-05-09
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Database Design Guidelines For Developers
One of the developers that I work with asked me to write a “brief” (really brief) guide on database design....
2014-04-07 (first published: 2014-04-03)
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SQL Server 2014 RTM
The new version of SQL Server will be here on Tuesday.
(Someone at Microsoft has a sense of humour in releasing...
2014-03-30
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Index Fragmentation
So you’ve setup a bunch of indexes in your database to tune the queries coming in. They’re all running much...
2014-03-13
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Blogs
Deploying an Updated Model with SQL Compare 16
By Steve Jones
In a previous post, I deployed a model to a database using SQL Compare...
Reality (And Limits) of Instant File Initialization for Transaction Logs in SQL Server 2022
By SQLPals
Reality (And Limits) of Instant File Initialization for Transaction Logs in SQL Server 2022 ...
Looking Back at the Redgate 2026 Company Kickoff
By Steve Jones
Last week I spent a few days in Cambridge, UK for the Redgate Company...
Forums
Create filegroups in partition
I have a table with partition on create_timestamp field. Though we're storing all data...
Adding and Dropping Columns II
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Leveraging DuckDB for OLAP Workloads: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Question of the Day
Adding and Dropping Columns II
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) , [Country2] [char] (3), [stateprovince2] [char] (2), [Country] [char] (3), [stateprovince] [char] ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use? See possible answers