An Orders of Magnitude Problem (T-SQL Tuning)
When a query suddenly starts taking much longer, what do you do? This story from Jerry
2013-03-13
7,437 reads
Performance Tuning
SQLServerCentral Runs sp_Blitz - Performance Part 1
The third article that examines the output of the sp_Blitz script™ run against SQLServerCentral's database servers.
2013-01-22
9,636 reads
How Come the Hourglass? Why Database Applications Slow Down
It is frustrating when you hit 'submit' and you get the hourglass big-time. Is it the database to blame? It could be, but there are other suspects that should be considered. Feodor Georgiev describes where, in the long route, to and fro', that a data request makes before returning, that things can get snarled up.
2013-01-07
4,716 reads
Viewing VMware Counters in PerfMon for SQL Server
I want to ensure that my SQL Server on a VMware Guest OS is getting the resources it should. This would go a long way towards helping isolate the performance problems we're experiencing. However, our system administrators won't give us access to VirtualCenter or any of the tools they use. Is there anything I can do? Check out this tip to learn more.
2012-11-12
3,272 reads
Single User Performance of SQLite v. SQL Server
A look at the performance of SQL Server compared to SQLite for single user applications.
2012-07-19
7,266 reads
ETL Performance Auditing - Part 2: Auditing Data Staging Phase
Easy way to setup a comprehensive ETL Performance auditing Solution no matter how complicated your ETL setup.
2014-11-07 (first published: 2012-06-12)
10,216 reads
The Real World: Implementing AWE
Describes the gains experienced in my environment by implementing AWE.
2012-05-16
8,182 reads
Performance Test of New Date Manipulation Functions (SQL Spackle)
Performance test of new SQL 2012 functions DateTimeFromParts and Format
2012-05-10
6,233 reads
Get Top Queries Taxing SQL Server CPUs
Script which uses SQL Server DMOs to gather top CPU taxing queries which can benifit most from tuning.
2012-03-10
2,900 reads
Database Performance Transparency
Describes the benefits of publishing instance performance metrics including a script to generate HTML-based Performance Snapshot.
2012-02-08
6,994 reads
Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Forums
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Smart AI Agents and Data Security
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RegEx Functions IV
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers