Years ago, my first go-to tool for performance tuning was Performance Monitor: it was available everywhere, worked in all versions, and gave me a lot of useful information without paying for a monitoring tool. Since then, I’ve moved on – wait stats are a much better starting point – but there are still 3 good Perfmon counters that I rely on.
Backblaze releases their new hard drive stats and there are some interesting items in the report.
Although computed columns are from the beginning of SQL Server, not everyone knows how to use them. This article will help you better understand how it works.
In this tip we look at some things you should think about when planning for a SQL Server data warehouse.
It's not the zero'th time Phil Factor has complained about the madness of a binary collation.
A minor disaster for Steve reveals some cracks in his pre-DR planning.
Whether or not to have NULLable columns in a table can be a religious debate, and how missing data is represented should be carefully considered during database design. In this article, Joe Celko considers the ways that SQL Server handles NULLs in several situations.
There is more to our lives than work, and Steve asks that we learn more about other parts of life.
Using R integration for analyzing sales data in WideWorldImporters database
Wait! Before you install that next SQL Server, hold up. Are you sure you’re using the right version?
One thing I’ve always loved about the Scooby-Doo cartoon is that he never solved...
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Flexibility and Scale at the Database Level When SQL Server 2012 introduced Availability Groups...
Setting page visibility and the active page are often overlooked last steps when publishing...
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I am trying to check out elastic query between two test instances we have...
What happens if you run the following code in SQL Server 2022+?
declare @t1 table (id int); insert into @t1 (id) values (NULL), (1), (2), (3); select count(*) from @t1 where @t1.id is distinct from NULL;See possible answers