This article is the third in a series of four where I share my findings on baselining, monitoring, stress testing and performance tuning. It builds on the foundations of my previous articles on baselining and monitoring.
2005-12-28
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Analyzing and detecting performance problems is a big part of a DBA's job and also one of the more difficult ones to learn. New author Terry Troisi brings us a few things that you can use the next time your server spikes to 100% CPU.
2005-12-26
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2005-11-29
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To null or not to null: that is the question. The specific focus here is performance implications of NULL versus NOT NULL columns.
2005-11-18
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2005-11-16
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2005-10-26
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In the preceding articles of this series, Lock Granularity, Transactions, and ACID were introduced. Common lock types, such as Shared, Exclusive, and Update were explored, as well as using SP_Lock to obtain current system lock information. In this article, the normal internal SQL locking methods will be manipulated using Lock Hints in order to obtain finer lock control.
2005-10-14
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2005-10-07
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2005-09-26
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2005-09-19
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I add this parameter to SQL Server 2025 in the Configuration Manager:
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