In SQL Server, heaps are rightly treated with suspicion. Although there are rare cases where they perform well, they are likely to be the cause of poor performance. If a table is likely to have a large number of changes, then it can become fragmented due to way that space is allocated and forward pointers used. How does one detect this problem? Is it significant? How does one deal with it, if necessary? Neeraj Tripathi explains.
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at those that run software early in its lifecycle.
There may be some people who enjoy repetitive typing, but Grant Fritchey doesn't. He's always preferred SQL Prompt. The standard snippets suit developers fine but aren't so DBA-oriented, so he set about asking the SQLServerCentral community what they typed in the most, and set about producing a set of DBA snippets with the results.
Most DBAs don't get involved with budgets at work, but we are affected by them. Steve notes you might want to understand how budgets work.
Greg Larson walks through the GUI installation process for SQL Server 2016 and explore these new installation options.
Join tSQLt developer, Sebastian Meine, and Steve Jones as they answer your questions and show you how to unit test T-SQL code.
Should we consider the relational model the default and only after having a good reason look at a NoSQL platform? Steve Jones has a few comments.
A quick SQL Prompt tip to automatically add semicolons to your code.
When an application suffers from performance problems, it’s common to assume the database is at fault. Ben Emmett examines why this often isn’t the case, and shows how you can dig into a .NET application’s use of SQL Server.
The laws and morals regarding privacy aren't well defined, but Microsoft is making a stand.
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