This metric shows Writelog wait time in ms, per elapsed second. Writelog wait types occur when the log cache is being flushed to disk. If this happens all the time, it may suggest disk bottlenecks where the transaction log is stored.
Part of our job as a data professional often deals with the movement and cleaning of data. However, should we be trying to reduce the work we do? Move the burden to the application? Steve Jones has a few comments.
One of the times that you need things to go right is when you are doing analysis and reporting. This is generally based on time and date. A sure-fire way of getting managers upset is to get the figures horribly wrong by messing up the way that you handle datetime values in SQL Server. In the interests of peace, harmony and a long career in BI, Robert Sheldon outlines some of the worst mistakes you can make when using SQL Server dates.
Chuck Hoffman exposes the mysteries of getting CASE statements to work in dynamic ORDER BY statements.
Microsoft released the preview version of Azure SQL Database V12 in December of 2014. As a database administrator, you might wonder about the schema and security of these new data marts. Microsoft has supplied system stored procedures for the database developer to query the Linked Servers for this type of meta data, as John Miner explains.
The way in which auditing is build into our systems isn't the best way to implement the practice.
In this article we will use VB.NET to connect to our Mining Models.
In this article we will use VB.NET to connect to our Mining Models.
In this article, James Munro demonstrates an example of a simple query without an index and then that same query again with the index. A simple introduction to database indexing.
Steve Jones has some advice for data professionals today. These are a few things that your boss doesn't want to hear, and you probably don't want to say.
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Following the advice in Smart Brevity improves communication.
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Microsoft has released SQL Server 2025, bringing big improvements to its main database engine....
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A customer was asking about what certain items in Redgate Monitor mean. They have...
I have table: t1 in schema1 with 19 billion records. I have another table...
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