Effective Clustered Indexes
As a guideline, clustered Indexes should be Narrow, Unique, Static and Ever Increasing (NUSE). Michelle Ufford Explains why.
SQL Saturday #45 - Louisville
A free day of training in Louisville, KY. Come and learn more about SQL Server from a variety of experts.
Scaling Up
Would you want to manage a VLDB? Or write the code for an application that uses one? This Friday Steve Jones asks the question of you.
Getting Started with SQL Azure Development
SQL Azure provides features similar to a relational database for your cloud apps. We’ll show you how to start developing for SQL Azure today.
A Collaborative Approach To Table Compression
A start at identifying and creating TSQL statements for tables that may benefit from compression.
Operating in Failure
Today we have an editorial from Sept 25, 2005 being republished as Steve is on vacation. This one talks about the need to expect failure in our systems and code for it.
31 Days of SSIS – Recursive SSIS Package (6/31)
31 Days of SSIS
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m writing 31 Days of SSIS. In the first post...
Trending Buffer Pool Performance Using DMV sys.dm_os_performance_counters
I'd seen you posted a tip on capturing SQL based PerfMon counters using sys.dm_os_performance_counters. What queries can I run against those stored results that would allow me to examine memory usage on my SQL instance?
The Importance of My Cloud Data
Steve Jones likes the cloud, but doesn't necessarily trust it. After a recent Hotmail outage, he outlines a potential issue that he sees with cloud computing.
Data Conversion in SQL Server
Most of the time, you do not have to worry about implicit conversion in SQL expressions, or when assigning a value to a column. Just occasionally, though, you'll find that data gets truncated, queries run slowly, or comparisons just seem plain wrong. Robert Sheldon explains why you sometimes need to be very careful if you mix data types when manipulating values.
Blogs
Five Ways Redshift Serverless Quietly Eats Your Budget
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
A Career of Memories
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
Rethinking Index Maintenance: Why avg_fragmentation_in_percent Is Outdated and What You Should Do Instead
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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Question of the Day
BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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