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.
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Learn how a trace flag affects SQL Server reading from disk and where this might be a useful thing for you to enable.
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You have dropped a column and wondering why you haven't recovered any space? Let's take a look.
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How easily can we find tables with dropped columns that need cleanup?
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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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