When Page Prefetching Takes a Back Seat – Exploring Trace Flag 652 in SQL Server
Learn how a trace flag affects SQL Server reading from disk and where this might be a useful thing for you to enable.
2025-09-24
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SQL Server internal storage
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What happens when we drop a column on a SQL Server table? Where's my space?
You have dropped a column and wondering why you haven't recovered any space? Let's take a look.
2024-08-01 (first published: 2024-04-26)
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Identify Tables With Dropped Columns
How easily can we find tables with dropped columns that need cleanup?
2024-06-07
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Understanding CRUD Operations on Tables with B-tree Indexes, Page-splits, and Fragmentation
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 […]
2021-05-10
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Understanding CRUD Operations Against Heaps and Forwarding Pointers
In this article, we examine how data changes are made against heaps.
2021-05-03
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Understanding the Internals of a Data Page
In Part 1 of this series, we examine the structure of data pages and how your tables are stored on these pages.
2021-04-13
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The New Database CheckDB
I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
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