Converting Trace to Extended Events
A walkthrough of a conversion of a SQL Trace setup to an Extended Event session.
In-Memory OLTP – SQL Server In-Memory OLTP Internals Overview
In-Memory OLTP (project “Hekaton”) is a new database engine component, fully integrated into SQL Server. It is optimized for OLTP workloads accessing memory resident data. In-Memory OLTP allows OLTP workloads to achieve significant improvements in performance, and reduction in processing time. Tables can be declared as ‘memory optimized’ to enable In-Memory OLTP’s capabilities. Memory-optimized tables are fully transactional and can be accessed using Transact-SQL. Transact-SQL stored procedures can be compiled to machine code for further performance improvements on memory-optimized tables. The engine is designed for high concurrency and blocking is minimal.
Release Wednesday
One of the teams at Red Gate is releasing new changes every Wednesday, which reminds Steve Jones of a time earlier in his career.
After Six Months On The Job What Challenges Remain?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that asks what you might do when you get settled at a new job.
Databases with MAXSIZE Set
Every DBA needs to appropriately manage database growth. No DBA wants an application to fail because the database is out of space. A database can run out of space a number of different ways. One of those ways is to set the MAXSIZE of a database. When the database grows to the MAXSIZE the database will not grow anymore and if someone tries to add more rows they will get an error saying the database is full.
Jobs You Wouldn't Expect To Be Threatened By Tech But Are
Will there be a fair balance between the coming generations of technology and the human workforce? Here is a list of industries that may not think yes.
Providing Feedback to Speakers
One of the greatest things that has arisen in the past 10 years or so is a veritable stream of great conferences for people to learn how to write better software, many of them low cost or even free. In the Data Platform community, we have had nearly 800 free SQL Saturday events around the […]
State v Migrations
Steve Jones talks a bit about the difference between state based and migrations based approaches for deployment.
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #201 Invitation: Temp Tables, Friend or Foe?
By ReviewMyDB
My T-SQL Tuesday #201 invitation. Do temp tables help performance or hurt it? I...
Monday Monitor Tips: The MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, and pressing on...
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
Forums
Removing production permissions when restoring database to non-prod
Hello experts, An application team has asked us to modify a SQL Agent job....
Advanced T-SQL: Replacing Slow Cursors with Window Functions
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Finding Bad Queries
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