Index Fragmentation in SQL Server: Stairway to SQL Server Indexes Level 11
Internal and external fragmentation – Causes, cures, and when not to care
Indexes with Included Columns: Stairway to SQL Server Indexes Level 5
Included columns enable nonclustered indexes to become covering indexes for a variety of queries, improving the performance of those queries and with the only overhead being an increase the size of an index.
Pages and Extents: Stairway to SQL Server Indexes Level 4
We've now seen how indexed and non-indexed tables perform in queries, and established "logical reads" as the metric for query performance. Now it is time to explain why logical reads are an excellent metric and also explain what is actually being read.
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Trunk Based Database Development
Trunk based development is what many of us do with shared database servers.
Are nulls stored in a nonclustered index?
When you index a nullable field, are the rows with nulls stored in the index? It’s easy enough to find out by creating a table with a nullable field, and then creating an index on it.
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Breaking the 4th Wall with Unity
Even when creating games, your code has access to environment variables and document files. In this article, Lance Talbert shows how to access files to convince the player that maybe the game knows more than it should.
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TempDB Facts I
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