Short Stroking and Performance
Disk performance can make a difference to your SQL Server instance. Steve Jones discusses a few things this week.
Load Testing in a Big Data Environment
Load tests give the database administrator quite a lot of valuable information and may make the difference between poor and acceptable application performance. But are there any gotchas or traps associated with big data?
Getting Started in SQL Server
Preparing for your first (or next) interview or job in SQL Server. A good introduction from Craig Farrell.
Team Reputation
The way that various departments might view a team of technology employees can affect how we interact. Andy Warren remembers a few situations and notes it's always more fun to join a team with a good reputation.
High Performance Relational Division in SQL Server
Relational division is used in SQL to select rows that conform to a number of different criteria. Dwain Camps explains how to use it, and shows the performance gains.
SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Server principals with default database offline
This metric monitors whether a server principal’s default database is offline. When you create a SQL Server server principal (formerly referred to as a server login) it has a default database setting that is used to assist in a connection request when no database is specified.
The Internet of Things
Today Steve Jones notes that the explosion of cheap hardware and electronics might be good for data professionals.
Data Science Laboratory System - Distributed File Databases
Distributed File Databases manage large amounts of unstructured or semi-structured data. Buck Woody shows how to install Hadoop in your Data Science lab to experiment with an example of the breed.
How to recover a suspect msdb database in SQL Server
A SQL Server MSDB database is flagged as "suspect"... what can you do? John Grover has some suggestions
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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: A Plan
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Programmatically Retrieving MLV Lineage and Refresh Times
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Question of the Day
Increase Deadlock Detection
How can I alter the deadlock detection interval to 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds on my SQL Server 2025 instance?
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