Book Review – SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP by Kalen Delaney
The new SQL Server 2014 feature In-Memory OLTP (code-named “Hekaton”) has been attracting a lot of interest since its release,...
2014-12-09
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The DBA Who Came In From The Cold
Video – Identifying large queries using Extended Events
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by Webucator (an online training company) asking if they could use my...
2014-12-11 (first published: 2014-12-05)
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Blogging for a year!
I’m actually quite proud of the fact that I’ve now been doing this for a year now (and that I’m...
2014-11-07
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Cardinality Estimation in SQL Server
Each time you view a seek/scan operator in an execution plan, you may have noticed that there’s a value for...
2014-11-04
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Identifying large queries using Extended Events
Following on from my last blog post I now want to run through how to identify large queries using Extended...
2014-10-06 (first published: 2014-10-01)
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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 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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Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
Disclosure: this post may contain links to books as an affiliate link. If you...
Claude Context Window
By Arun Sirpal
Every Claude conversation has a context window. It is the total amount of text...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
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provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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