The first thing you need to understand about SQL Server is indexes, but somehow many of the basic questions don't often get asked or answered much on forums. Rob Sheldon answers some of these questions about SQL Server Indexes and indexing.
SQL Saturday is coming to Huntington Beach, CA on April 26 2014. This is a free day of training and networking for SQL Server Professionals - there are also 2 paid-for precons on April 25 presented by Jason Horner and Bradley Bell. Register for SQL Saturday Orange County while space is available.
Disk performance can make a difference to your SQL Server instance. Steve Jones discusses a few things this week.
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?
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Today Steve Jones notes that the explosion of cheap hardware and electronics might be good for data professionals.
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What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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