SQL Server tech interview questions must be well crafted to make sure the candidate actually knows the topic. In this article, Sergey Gigoyan provides his favorite questions for interviewing SQL Server developers.
2021-01-27
One of your SQL Server instance shows a major dip in performance or throughput, affecting all the user databases. You notice that the slow interludes coincide, as if orchestrated. On investigation, it appears that several transactions running over that period were using a lot of space in tempdb. However, which of them, if any, are causing the tempdb bottleneck, and why?
2021-01-26
Learn how to create charts and graphs with R and how you can use R code in SSMS to generate and save graphs to an external file.
2021-01-26
When it comes to developing a Power BI report, we can use it for accessing data, transforming the data, and turning the data into information using visuals. With no doubt Power BI can do the job from beginning to end. Now, this is not the only, nor necessarily the best, tool for all the steps […]
2021-01-25
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When inserting rows into a heap, SQL Server must sometimes update the PFS page which can PFS contention and affect performance. In this article, Uwe Ricken demonstrates how to measure PFS contention.
2021-01-25
In this tip we will cover how to use merge and append in Power BI to add additional data to a dataset that can then be used in reports and visuals
2021-01-22
Learn how to use Gitflow workflow to meet the needs of developing new database related features and how to deploy these database changes.
2021-01-21
In this post, Brent explains how to use a combination of two separate topics that he has blogged about recently.
2021-01-20
In this article we present a PowerShell script that can help you monitor all of your SQL Server Availability Groups in your environment.
2021-01-18
In this article we look at how to upload and download files from Azure Storage using SQL Server Integration Services.
2021-01-15
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You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;