Introduction Every DML transaction reads the data before it makes any changes. Not only during a SELECT query, but when you run any DML statement, insert, update, or delete, SQL Server first fetches a bunch of pages into the buffer pool locating the desired rows and changes them while synchronously writing to the transaction log […]
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In this article, we examine how data changes are made against heaps.
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In Part 1 of this series, we examine the structure of data pages and how your tables are stored on these pages.
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Intro This post shows the internal logical structure of the SQL Server Transaction Log. The details here target SQL Server 2000 to 2017. Note that SQL Server 2019 will...
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Sometimes things are not exactly how we think they are. Read the story of the missing default value and learn why.
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