Unexpected View Performance
Views that use implicit conversion to return result sets may use a different query plan than the statement executed in query analyzer.
SQL Server Performance Tuning Using Wait Statistics: A Beginner's Guide
This beginner's guide to Wait Stats by Jonathan Kehayias and Erin Stellato is a free PDF download brought to you by SQL Skills and Simple-Talk.
One Database to Rule Them All
Twitter is working on a new database that can handle unstructured as well as structured data well. Is this a competitor for SQL Server?
XML Schema validation in SQL Server
An introduction to the XML Schema Collection and XML validation.
Call for participants in deployment process research
The Red Gate Database Delivery team is looking for people willing to participate in UX sessions for an exciting, brand new product, with $50 Amazon vouchers for participants.
Explaining the Calculations of Probability and Importance for Complex Association Rules in SSAS
The output from the Association Rules data mining model in SSAS 2012 can be difficult to understand, especially when the generated rules become more complex. In this tip we go through an example to provide a better understanding.
SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP Dynamic Management Views
Greg Larsen provides a quick primer of the new Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) to help you better understand and manage your In-Memory OLTP tables and your Instances that support In-Memory OLTP tables.
Doing What It Takes To Get The Job Done
It can be a point of pride in technology that we work ourselves to get the job done. Is that a good thing? Andy Warren has a few thoughts.
SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Table size (MB)
This metric is useful if you want to know exactly how much physical space a particular table is taking up, including the size of its indexes. If a database is growing quickly within a short time and you suspect a certain table is responsible, you can monitor its actual size, or the rate at which it is increasing.
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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