Large table cleanup with minimal locks
How do you delete millions of rows with minimal impact to the business? This article gives you a way to accomplish the removal of old data.
How do you delete millions of rows with minimal impact to the business? This article gives you a way to accomplish the removal of old data.
Today we have an editorial originally published on Mar 13, 2007 that is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. This one looks at all the world's data.
A free day of SQL Server training in Vancouver, BC, Canada on Mar 17, 2012.
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Today Steve Jones talks about code scanning and the analysis that tools can do for us today.
The challenge is to transform monthly resource efforts into weekly actuals.
When all you have is Powershell and perfmon logs, here's a way you can use them together to perform some analysis.
A lot has been written about the potential performance benefits of SQL Server data compression; but hard performance data? Not so much.
Under the pseudonym of 'SwePeso', Peter Larsson is famous on SQL forums for the amazing performance he can get from SQL. How does he do it? In the first of a series of articles, Peter explains his secrets.
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