| Understanding how SQL Server executes a query |
Remus Rusanu |
2016-04-15 |
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| SQL Server Index Design Guide |
Microsoft |
1753-01-01 |
[IDX] |
| SQL Server 2012 Security Best Practices - Microsoft |
Bob Beauchemin |
2012-01-15 |
[SEC] |
| Help, my database is corrupt. Now what? |
Gail Shaw |
2010-04-23 |
[COR] |
| What to Do When DBCC CHECKDB Reports Corruption |
Brent Ozar |
2016-05-19 |
[COR] |
| Troubleshooting SQL Server CPU Performance Issues |
Joe Sack |
2013-05-28 |
[P] |
| Knee-Jerk Performance Tuning : Incorrect Use of Temporary Tables |
Paul Randal |
2016-04-06 |
[P] |
| High Performance T-SQL using Code Patterns |
Dwain Camps |
2015-05-27 |
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| SQL Server Database Corruption Repair |
Steve Stedman |
2015-08-26 |
[COR] |
| Basic SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting For Developers |
Tony Davis |
2015-08-14 |
[P] |
| The Curse and Blessings of Dynamic SQL |
Erland Sommarskog |
2015-04-14 |
[DS] |
| Dynamic Search Conditions in T-SQL |
Erland Sommarskog |
2016-10-29 |
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| Slow in the Application, Fast in SSMS |
Erland Sommarskog |
2013-12-18 |
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| How to share data between stored procedures |
Erland Sommarskog |
2013-11-02 |
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| Arrays and Lists in SQL Server 2008 |
Erland Sommarskog |
2016-08-21 |
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| Packaging Permissions in Stored Procedures |
Erland Sommarskog |
2011-12-31 |
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| Error and Transaction Handling in SQL Server Part One – Jumpstart Error Handling |
Erland Sommarskog |
2015-05-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Error and Transaction Handling in SQL Server Part Two – Commands and Mechanisms |
Erland Sommarskog |
2019-09-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Error and Transaction Handling in SQL Server Part Three – Implementation |
Erland Sommarskog |
2017-05-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Using the Bulk-Load Tools in SQL Server |
Erland Sommarskog |
2016-12-08 |
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| Using Table-Valued Parameters in SQL Server and .NET |
Erland Sommarskog |
2016-12-08 |
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| SQL Server Columnstore Articles |
Niko Neugebauer |
2016-05-09 |
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| Documentation: It Does not Suck! |
Jes Schultz Borland |
2013-01-15 |
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| The Data Loading Performance Guide |
Thomas Kejser, Peter Carlin, Stuart Ozer |
2009-01-15 |
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| Required Testing for Installing SQL Server Cumulative Updates and Service Packs |
Kendra Little |
2016-04-28 |
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| Stop Shrinking Your Database Files. Seriously. Now. |
Brent Ozar |
2009-08-19 |
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| How to shrink a database in 4 easy steps |
Andy Mallon |
2016-04-28 |
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| Introduction to the Index Operational Statistics Dynamic Management Function |
Tim Ford |
2016-04-26 |
[IDX] |
| Updating Statistics in SQL Server: Maintenance Questions & Answers |
Kendra Little |
2016-04-18 |
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| Overcoming Variable Limitations in SQLCmd Mode |
Robert L Davis |
2015-11-23 |
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| Contents of a Run Book |
Microsoft |
2002-11-12 |
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| Compressed and Encrypted Backups on the Cheap |
Randolph West |
2015-04-19 |
[B] |
| Curing Data-Obesity in OLTP Databases |
Feodor Georgiev |
2015-02-06 |
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| Understanding GRANT, DENY, and REVOKE in SQL Server |
K. Brian Kelley |
2013-02-27 |
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| Monitor SQL Server Transaction Log File Free Space |
Mike Eastland |
2015-05-12 |
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| Dynamically Query a 100 Million Row Table-Efficiently |
Gary Strange |
2016-05-27 |
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| Understanding and Using Parallelism in SQL Server |
Paul White |
2011-03-03 |
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| Diagnosing and Resolving Latch Contention on SQL Server |
Microsoft |
2014-02-28 |
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| Parallel Execution Plans – Branches and Threads |
Paul White |
2013-10-07 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Nasty Fast PERCENT_RANK |
Alan Burstein |
2016-06-07 |
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| Looking at VIEWs, Close Up |
Joe Celko |
2016-05-10 |
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| SQL Server 2016: It Just Runs Faster |
Thomas LaRock |
2016-06-01 |
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| TSQL JOIN Types Poster |
Steve Stedman |
2015-05-28 |
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| It is Hard To Destroy Data |
Michael J Swart |
2015-05-20 |
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| How to transfer logins and passwords between instances of SQL Server |
Microsoft |
2013-12-07 |
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| Finding File Growths with Extended Events |
Andy Galbraith |
2016-06-13 |
[XE] |
| Questions You Should Ask About the Databases You Manage |
Brent Ozar |
2016-06-16 |
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| Clustered Indexes in SQL Server |
Derik Hammer |
2016-06-22 |
[IDX] |
| Triage Quiz: Is Your SQL Server Safe? |
Angie Rudduck |
2016-06-15 |
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| Why Not Just Create Statistics? |
Erik Darling |
2016-07-14 |
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| Understanding the SQL Server NOLOCK hint |
Greg Robidoux |
2011-08-16 |
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| Recover access to a SQL Server instance |
Aaron Bertrand |
2012-08-30 |
[SEC] |
| SQL Server 2016 Upgrade Planning |
Jen Underwood |
2016-06-28 |
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| Graphs and Graph Algorithms in T-SQL |
Hans Olav Norheim |
2010-05-22 |
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| Episode 4: SQL Server R Services makes you a smarter T-SQL Developer |
Sanjay Mishra |
2016-07-12 |
[DEV][R] |
| How to Set Max Degree of Parallelism in SQL Server |
Kendra Little |
2016-07-14 |
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| Undocumented Query Plans: Equality Comparisons |
Paul White |
2016-06-22 |
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| Simplified Order Of Operations |
Michael J Swart |
2016-07-20 |
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| SQL Server Statistics Basics |
Robert Sheldon |
2016-07-22 |
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| Learn to Use sp_Blitz, sp_BlitzCache, sp_BlitzFirst, and sp_BlitzIndex with These Tutorial Videos |
Brent Ozar |
2016-09-12 |
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| Where is a record really located? |
Tim Chapman |
2016-09-15 |
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| Instant File Initialization (IFI) |
Steve Stedman |
2016-09-19 |
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| How to Query the StackExchange Databases |
Brent Ozar |
2014-01-17 |
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| How to Troubleshoot Performance in SQL Server (Dear SQL DBA) |
Kendra Little |
2016-06-02 |
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| How to Log Activity Using sp_whoisactive in a Loop |
Brent Ozar |
2016-07-01 |
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| Logging Activity Using sp_WhoIsActive – Take 2 |
Tara Kizer |
2016-07-26 |
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| How To Fix Forwarded Records |
Tara Kizer |
2016-07-29 |
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| Should I Automate my Windows Updates for SQL Server? |
Kendra Little |
2016-07-28 |
|
| Finding the Right Path |
Jason Brimhall |
2016-08-24 |
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| #BackToBasics : An Updated "Kitchen Sink" Example |
Aaron Bertrand |
2016-06-01 |
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| Locking and Blocking in SQL Server |
Brent OZar |
2016-01-01 |
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| Nested Loops Prefetching |
Paul White |
2013-08-31 |
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| Performance tuning backup and restore operations |
Derik Hammer |
2015-12-21 |
[B][P] |
| Execution Plan Analysis: The Mystery Work Table |
Paul White |
2013-03-08 |
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| How to move data between File Groups in SQL Server |
Klaus Aschenbrenner |
2016-09-26 |
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| Optimizing Your Query Plans with the SQL Server 2014 Cardinality Estimator |
Joseph Sack |
2014-06-24 |
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| Parallelism in SQL Server Query Tuning |
Itzik Ben-Gan |
2011-03-14 |
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| What You Need to Know about the Batch Mode Window Aggregate Operator in SQL Server 2016: Part 1 |
Itzik Ben-Gan |
2016-05-31 |
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| What To Do If sp_BlitzFirst Warns About High Compilations |
Erik Darling |
2016-09-27 |
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| Questions You Should Be Asking About Your Backups |
Erik Darling |
2016-10-13 |
[B] |
| Evolutionary Database Design |
Martin Fowler |
2016-05-01 |
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| Implementing a custom sort |
Rob Farley |
2016-10-17 |
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| Deletes that Split Pages and Forwarded Ghosts |
Paul White |
2012-08-31 |
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| Query Optimizer Deep Dive - Part 1 |
Paul White |
2012-04-28 |
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| Query Optimizer Deep Dive - Part 2 |
Paul White |
2012-04-28 |
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| Query Optimizer Deep Dive - Part 3 |
Paul White |
2012-04-29 |
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| Query Optimizer Deep Dive - Part 4 |
Paul White |
2012-05-01 |
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| Should You Rebuild or Reorganize Indexes on Large Tables? |
Kendra Little |
2016-10-13 |
[IDX] |
| Retrieving SQL Server Query Execution Plans |
Robert Sheldon |
2016-10-18 |
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| Introduction to Latches in SQL Server |
Klaus Aschenbrenner |
2014-06-23 |
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| Latch Coupling in SQL Server |
Klaus Aschenbrenner |
2016-10-24 |
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| Partitioned Views? A How-To Guide |
Erik Darling |
2016-09-22 |
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| How to Choose Between RCSI and Snapshot Isolation Levels |
Kendra Little |
2016-02-18 |
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| TroubleShooting SQL Server Memory Consumption |
Satnam Singh |
2012-09-28 |
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| Time Series Algorithms in SQL Server |
Dinesh Asanka |
2015-06-01 |
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| Heap Tables in SQL Server |
Klaus Aschenbrenner |
2015-10-19 |
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| Internals of the Seven SQL Server Sorts – Part 1 |
Paul White |
2015-04-29 |
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| Internals of the Seven SQL Server Sorts – Part 2 |
Paul White |
2015-05-07 |
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| The 9 Letters That Get DBAs Fired |
Brent Ozar |
2011-12-22 |
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| Restarting SQL Server – always a good idea? |
Klaus Aschenbrenner |
2016-08-08 |
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| Don’t believe everything you read: Reconfigure flushes the plan cache |
Matt Bowler |
2012-06-25 |
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| How-to load data fast into SQL Server 2016 |
Henk |
2016-10-24 |
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| Database Design Matters, RTO and Filegroups |
Raul Gonzalez |
2016-10-28 |
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| Automate Alerting for SQL Server Suspect Database Pages |
Ben Snaidero |
2016-01-25 |
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| Successful Anti-Patterns, Storage Requirements |
Raul Gonzalez |
2016-10-19 |
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| SQL Server table columns under the hood |
Remus Rusanu |
2011-10-20 |
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| How to analyse SQL Server performance |
Remus Rusanu |
2014-02-24 |
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| To BLOB or Not To BLOB: Large Object Storage in a Database or a Filesystem? |
Jim Gray |
2006-04-01 |
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| Asynchronous procedure execution |
Remus Rusanu |
2009-08-05 |
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| What is the CXPACKET Wait Type, and How Do You Reduce It? |
Brent Ozar |
2013-08-27 |
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| New indexes, hypothetically |
Kenneth Fisher |
2016-11-02 |
[IDX] |
| Indexing Wide Keys in SQL Server |
Brent Ozar |
2013-05-08 |
[IDX] |
| The Anatomy and (In)Security of Microsoft SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), or How to Break TDE |
Simon McAuliffe |
2016-03-31 |
[SEC] |
| Correctly adding data files to tempdb |
Paul Randal |
2014-10-14 |
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| Why You Should Test Your Queries Against Bigger Data |
Erik Darling |
2016-11-01 |
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| Tally OH! An Improved SQL 8K “CSV Splitter” Function |
Jeff Moden |
2012-12-28 |
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| Set Statistics… Profile? |
Erik Darling |
2016-10-11 |
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| Hierarchies on Steroids #1: Convert an Adjacency List to Nested Sets |
Jeff Moden |
2014-09-19 |
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| Optimizing T-SQL queries that change data |
Paul White |
2013-01-26 |
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| Measuring Query Duration: SSMS vs SQL Sentry Plan Explorer |
Kendra Little |
2016-09-27 |
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| Inside the Statistics Histogram & Density Vector |
Klaus Aschenbrenner |
2014-01-28 |
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| Misconceptions on parameter sniffing |
Hugo Kornelis |
2016-11-03 |
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| What Every Accidental DBA Needs to Know Now: Basics of SQL Security |
Tim Ford |
2016-10-03 |
[SEC] |
| SQL Server Perfmon (Performance Monitor) Best Practices |
Brent Ozar |
2006-12-30 |
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| Top 5 Overlooked Index Features |
Erik Darling |
2016-11-10 |
[IDX] |
| A Sysadmin’s Guide to Microsoft SQL Server Memory |
Brent Ozar |
2016-09-15 |
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| Searching Strings in SQL Server is Expensive |
Brent Ozar |
2016-10-18 |
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| Altering an INT Column to a BIGINT |
Kendra Little |
2016-08-04 |
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| Query tuning 101: Problems with IN () |
Daniel Janik |
2016-11-10 |
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| Admin: Bulkadmin vs ADMINISTER BULK OPERATIONS |
Richard A Brown |
2012-01-31 |
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| Can Indexes My Query Doesn’t Use Help My Query? |
Erik Darling |
2016-11-09 |
[IDX] |
| SQL Server Audit Walkthrough |
Sadequl Hussain |
2016-01-01 |
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| The SQL Server 2016 Query Store: Overview and Architecture |
Enrico van de Laar |
2015-11-16 |
[QS] |
| Reading, Writing, and Creating SQL Server Extended Properties |
Phil Factor |
2015-10-21 |
[XE] |
| Questions About SQL Server Security and Access Control You Were Too Shy to Ask |
William Brewer |
2016-11-04 |
[SEC] |
| The Ten Commandments of SQL Server Monitoring |
Adam Machanic |
2013-04-09 |
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| Should I use NOT IN, OUTER APPLY, LEFT OUTER JOIN, EXCEPT, or NOT EXISTS? |
Adam Machanic |
2012-12-27 |
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| Parameter Sniffing, Embedding, and the RECOMPILE Options |
Paul White |
2013-08-28 |
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| Can comments hamper stored procedure performance? |
Aaron Bertrand |
2016-11-09 |
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| SQL Server Temporary Table Caching |
Simon Liew |
2016-08-12 |
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| Techniques to Monitor SQL Server memory usage |
Basit Farooq |
2016-08-01 |
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| Troubleshooting Query Regressions Caused By The New Cardinality Estimator |
SQL Scotsman |
2016-11-28 |
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| Migrating Databases to Azure SQL Database |
Tim Radney |
2016-10-25 |
[AZ][MG] |
| Solve Common SQL Server Restore Issues |
Sergey Gigoyan |
2015-04-12 |
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| Spills SQL Server Doesn’t Warn You About |
Erik Darling |
2016-11-30 |
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| How often should I run DBCC CHECKDB? |
Erik Darling |
2016-02-25 |
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| Why is My Query Faster the Second Time it Runs? |
Kendra Little |
2016-11-25 |
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| Downgrading the SQL Server Edition of a Dev Environment |
Kendra Little |
2016-11-15 |
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| Date Math In The WHERE Clause |
Erik Darling |
2016-12-01 |
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| Why is This Partitioned Query Slower? |
Kendra Little |
2015-09-01 |
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| A Beginner’s Guide to the True Order of SQL Operations |
Lukas Eder |
2016-12-09 |
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| Logical Query Processing: What It Is And What It Means to You |
Itzik Ben-Gan |
2016-01-15 |
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| Forcing a Parallel Query Execution Plan |
Paul White |
2011-12-23 |
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| Join Containment Assumption and CE Model Variation |
Dmitri Pilugin |
2014-05-04 |
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| Table Variable Tip |
Itzik Ben-Gan |
2015-02-08 |
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| Heap tables in SQL Server |
Derik Hammer |
2016-04-13 |
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| The ‘B’ in B-Tree – Indexing in SQL Server |
Derik Hammer |
2016-04-04 |
[IDX] |
| How to read the SQL Server Database Transaction Log |
Manvendra Singh |
2013-10-31 |
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| Filtered Statistics Follow-up |
Erik Darling |
2016-12-22 |
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| SQL Server Query Optimization: No Unknown Unknowns |
Itzik Ben-Gan |
2015-10-13 |
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| Sync Vs Async Statistics: The Old Debate |
SQL Scotsman |
2016-12-10 |
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| Recommended updates and configuration options for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014 with high-performance workloads |
Microsoft |
2016-03-08 |
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| Troubleshooting SQL Server backup and restore operations |
Microsoft |
2016-07-23 |
[B] |
| SQL Server 2016: Getting tempdb a little more right |
Aaron Bertrand |
2015-09-30 |
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| Practical uses of binary types |
Daniel Hutmacher |
2017-01-09 |
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| Backing Up SQL Server Databases is Easier in PowerShell than T-SQL |
Aaron Nelson |
2017-01-12 |
[PS] |
| Creating, detaching, re-attaching, and fixing a SUSPECT database |
Paul Randal |
2008-08-29 |
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| Modifying Tables Online – Part 1: Migration Strategy |
Michael J Swart |
2012-04-16 |
[MG] |
| Modifying Tables Online – Part 2: Implementation Example |
Michael J Swart |
2012-04-17 |
[MG] |
| Modifying Tables Online – Part 3: Example With Error Handling |
Michael J Swart |
2012-04-20 |
[MG] |
| Modifying Tables Online – Part 4: Testing |
Michael J Swart |
2012-04-26 |
[MG] |
| Modifying Tables Online – Part 5: Just One More Thing |
Michael J Swart |
2012-04-27 |
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| DATEDIFF vs. DATEADD |
Guy Glanster |
2017-01-25 |
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| Disaster recovery 101: hack-attach a damaged database |
Paul Randal |
2010-06-18 |
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| Bones of SQL - The Calendar Table |
Bob Hovious |
2016-09-08 |
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| SQL Server 2016, Double or Nothing, Always Encrypted with temporal tables |
Raul Gonzalez |
2016-07-27 |
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| Reclaiming Space After Column Data Type Change |
David Fundakowski |
2016-08-09 |
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| Packing Intervals with Priorities |
Itzik Ben-Gan |
2015-11-10 |
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| Avoid Unnecessary Lookups when Using ROW_NUMBER for Paging |
Itzik Ben-Gan |
2014-12-11 |
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| Migrating a Disk-Based Table to a Memory-Optimized Table in SQL Server |
Alex Grinberg |
2017-02-26 |
[MG] |
| SQL Server Hardware Optimization |
Basit Farooq |
2016-06-01 |
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| Index Types Heaps, Primary Keys, Clustered and Nonclustered Indexes |
Kendra Little |
2017-02-02 |
[IDX] |
| Identifying Existence of Intersections in Intervals |
Itzik Ben-Gan |
2017-02-08 |
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| Cheat Sheet How to Configure TempDB for Microsoft SQL Server |
Brent Ozar |
2016-01-14 |
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| A Tourist’s Guide to the sp_Blitz Source Code, Part 1: The Big Picture |
Brent Ozar |
2017-02-09 |
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| SQL Server Default Configurations That You Should Change |
Pio Balistoy |
2017-02-06 |
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| Decoding Key and Page WaitResource for Deadlocks and Blocking |
Kendra Little |
2016-10-17 |
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| Security in the CLR World Inside SQL Server |
Kiely Don |
1990-01-01 |
[CLR][SEC] |
| On the Advantages of DateTime2(n) over DateTime |
William Assaf |
2012-12-04 |
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| Build Your Own Tools |
Michael J Swart |
2016-09-23 |
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| Enhanced T-SQL Error Handling With Extended Events |
Dave Mason |
2016-09-14 |
[XE] |
| Compression and its Effects on Performance |
Erin Stellato |
2017-01-20 |
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| Does Truncate Table Reset Statistics |
Kendra Little |
2016-12-08 |
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| SQL Server Database Decommissioning Check List |
Svetlana Golovko |
2016-06-23 |
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| New SQL Server Database Request Questionnaire and Checklist |
Svetlana Golovko |
2015-02-24 |
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| Adding Partitions to the Lower End of a Left Based Partition Function |
Kendra Little |
2017-02-21 |
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| Don't Panic Busting a File Space Myth |
Tim Ford |
2016-11-14 |
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| #BackToBasics : Dating Responsibly |
Aaron Bertrand |
2016-04-06 |
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| How to Establish Dedicated Admin Connection (DAC) to SQL Server |
Mika Wendelius |
2016-10-05 |
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| SQL and SQL only Best Practice |
Nagaraj Venkatesan |
2013-05-27 |
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| There Is No Difference Between Table Variables, Temporary Tables, and Common Table Expressions |
Grant Fritchey |
2016-08-04 |
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| Availability Group on SQL Server 2016 |
Guy Glantser |
2017-02-01 |
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| Using SQL Server and R Services for analyzing DBA Tasks |
Tomaž Kaštrun |
2017-02-17 |
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| SQLskills SQL101: Dealing with SQL Server corruption |
Paul Randal |
2017-02-28 |
[COR] |
| Advanced Analytics with R & SQL: Part I - R Distributions |
Frank A. Banin |
2016-10-31 |
[R] |
| T-SQL Tuesday #85 STOP! Restore Time! |
Derik Hammer |
2016-12-13 |
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| Filtered Indexes: Rowstore vs Nonclustered Columnstore |
Kendra Little |
2016-11-10 |
[IDX] |
| ALTER SCHEMA TRANSFER for Zero Downtime Database Upgrades |
Dave Wentzel |
2013-05-21 |
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| Delayed Durability in SQL Server 2014 |
Aaron Bertrand |
2014-04-28 |
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| Daylight Savings end affects not only you, but your SQL Server too |
Aaron Bertrand |
2014-04-28 |
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| Searching Strings in SQL Server is Expensive |
Brent Ozar |
2016-10-18 |
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| Let’s Corrupt a SQL Server Database Together, Part 1: Clustered Indexes |
Brent Ozar |
2017-02-22 |
[COR][IDX] |
| Let’s Corrupt a Database Together, Part 2: Nonclustered Indexes |
Brent Ozar |
2017-02-28 |
[COR][IDX] |
| The Guide SQL Server Installation Checklist (settings that increase SQL Server Performance) |
Mark Varnas |
2017-03-03 |
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| SQL Browser, what is it good for? Absolutely something! |
Chris Sommer |
2017-03-01 |
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| PowerShell Getting More From Generic Error Messages |
Shane O'Neill |
2017-03-02 |
[PS] |
| #BackToBasics : Common Table Expressions (CTEs) |
Aaron Bertrand |
2016-01-06 |
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| SQL VNext sp_configure on Windows and Linux with dbatools |
Rob Sewell |
2017-03-02 |
[PS] |
| Adding a T-SQL Job Step to a SQL Agent Job with PowerShell |
Rob Sewell |
2017-02-20 |
[PS][J] |
| Setting up Database Mail to use my Gmail account |
Mat Hayward |
2017-03-01 |
[DM] |
| Using DBCC CLONEDATABASE and Query Store for Testing |
Erin Stellato |
2017-02-22 |
[DBCC][QS] |
| Getting Started with Natural Earth — A SQL Server Shapefile Alternative (Geospatial Resource) |
Jeff Pries |
2017-02-17 |
[V] |
| SQL Server Temporal Tables: How-To Recipes |
Alex Grinberg |
2017-02-10 |
[DEV] |
| The Migration Checklist |
Steve Jones |
2017-03-08 |
[MG] |
| Upgrading to SQL Server 2014: A Dozen Things to Check |
Steve Jones |
2014-06-03 |
[MG] |
| Introducing the Set-based Loop |
Luis Cazares |
2015-07-27 |
[DEV] |
| Representing Hierarchical Data for Mere Mortals |
Phil Factor |
2016-10-06 |
[DEV] |
| KPIs For DBAs to Show Their CIOs |
Thomas Larock |
2017-03-08 |
[DBA] |
| How To Forecast Database Disk Capacity If You Don’t Have A Monitoring Tool |
Edwin M Sarmiento |
2015-07-31 |
[DBA] |
| Statistical Sampling for Verifying Database Backups |
Thomas Larock |
2010-05-13 |
[B][DBA] |
| Using dbatools for automated restore and CHECKDB |
Anthony Nocentino |
2017-03-04 |
[DBA][PS] |
| Bad Habits Revival |
Aaron Bertrand |
2017-01-26 |
[DBA] |
| Deploying Multiple SSIS Projects via PowerShell |
Nat Sundar |
2017-02-27 |
[SSIS,][PS] |
| Determining the Cost Threshold for Parallelism |
Grant Fritchey |
2017-02-28 |
[DBA] |
| Identifying a row’s physical location |
Wayne Sheffield |
2017-03-08 |
[DBA] |
| Split a file group into multiple data files |
Trayce Jordan |
2017-03-03 |
[DBA] |
| Why PFS pages cannot be repaired |
Paul Randal |
2017-03-05 |
[DBA] |
| ERRORLOG records max out at 2049 characters |
Cody Konior |
2017-03-02 |
[DEV] |
| How to Build a SQL Server Disaster Recovery Plan with Google Compute Engine |
Tara Kizer |
2017-03-10 |
[DBA] |
| SQL Server Performance Tuning in Google Compute Engine |
Erik Darling |
2017-03-09 |
[DBA][P] |
| Configuring R on SQL Server 2016 |
Ginger Grant |
2016-12-06 |
[DBA][R] |
| Knee-Jerk PerfMon Counters: Page Life Expectancy |
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2018-12-30 |
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2018-02-14 |
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2014-03-19 |
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2017-11-14 |
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Brad Schulz |
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2018-08-12 |
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2018-08-13 |
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2018-08-13 |
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Mitch Wheat |
2019-04-12 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Difference between Identity & Sequence in SQL Server |
Ben Richardson |
2018-08-15 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Does the Rowmodctr Update for Non-Updating Updates? |
Brent Ozar |
2019-05-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| An Intro To Data Modeling |
JBOSEMS |
2019-04-12 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| On telemetry and other data collected by SQL Server |
Aaron Bertrand |
2016-04-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Purging data with batched deletes |
Andy Mallon |
2019-04-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Don’t Forget RoboCopy |
John Morehouse |
2019-03-03 |
[DBA] |
| Understanding the XML description of the Deadlock Graph in SQL Server |
Minette Steynberg |
2016-04-26 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| What Is The Difference Between Checkpoint And Lazy Writer |
Saurabh Sinha |
2012-10-01 |
[DBA] |
| Efficiently Indexing Long Character Strings |
Jon Seigel |
2013-07-13 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server Read-only tables |
Kenneth Fisher |
2019-01-21 |
[DBA] |
| Slow inserts across a linked server? |
Max Vernon |
2019-04-25 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Using IGNORE NULLS With SQL Window Functions to Fill Gaps |
Lukas Eder |
2019-04-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server Logical Reads |
Ami Levin |
2008-01-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Two Words For Faster Scalar Functions |
Bert Wagner |
2018-12-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to Get SQL Server Dates and Times Horribly Wrong |
Robert Sheldon |
2015-05-28 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Diagnosing and Resolving Spinlock Contention on SQL Server |
Ewan Fairweather, Mike Ruthruff |
2011-06-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Diagnosing and Resolving Latch Contention on SQL Server |
Ewan Fairweather, Mike Ruthruff |
2011-06-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Advanced Nutanix: SQL Server on Nutanix Best Practices Released! |
Steven Poitras |
2013-11-09 |
[DBA] |
| Gaps and Islands Across Date Ranges |
Bert Wagner |
2019-03-12 |
[DBA] |
| NOT NULL Persisted Computed Columns (And What They Allow) |
Louis Davidson |
2019-06-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How many ways are there to sort GUIDs? How much time do you have? |
Raymond Chen |
2019-04-26 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How do I force a SQL Login to change it’s password on next login |
Kenneth Fisher |
2019-06-05 |
[DBA] |
| SQL Server Performance Benchmarking with Patterns |
Paul Brewer |
2017-10-19 |
[BENCH] |
| SQL Server function to convert integer date to datetime format |
Tim Ford |
2019-05-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Storing Utc Is Not A Silver Bullet |
Jon Skeet |
2019-03-27 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Logical Query Processing Part 8 : SELECT and ORDER BY |
Itzik Ben-Gan |
2016-11-15 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server Common Table Expression vs Temp Table |
Rick Dobson |
2019-05-22 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Which Query Used The Most Cpu? Implementing Extended Events |
Grant Fritchey |
2019-06-03 |
[XE] |
| SQL Server Plan Cache Limits |
Erin Stellato |
2019-05-28 |
[DBA] |
| SQL Server and ReFS: Part 1 – DBCC and In Memory OLTP |
swasheck |
2014-11-11 |
[DBA] |
| SQL Server and ReFS: Part 2 – FIO Benchmarking NTFS vs. ReFS |
swasheck |
2014-12-18 |
[DBA] |
| Why Rolling back inserts with Identity columns is a bad idea |
Adrian Buckman |
2019-04-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| What’s Better, CTEs or Temp Tables? |
Brent Ozar |
2019-06-06 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The Difference Between SQL’s JOIN .. ON Clause and the Where Clause |
Lukas Eder |
2019-04-09 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| My IT department installed an antivirus with SQL Server |
Randolph West |
2019-06-05 |
[DBA] |
| An Experiment with Deadlocks - ROWLOCK hint myth |
Jason Brimhall |
2019-03-25 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Adding a New Transaction Log File when the Existing Log is Full |
Max Vernon |
2019-03-19 |
[DBA] |
| Transactions Don't Start At BEGIN TRAN |
Josh Darnell |
2019-06-05 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| CAST/CONVERT makes expressions nullable |
Daniel Hutmacher |
2019-06-05 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Deciding between COALESCE and ISNULL in SQL Server |
Aaron Bertrand |
2012-04-30 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How do you choose which columns to include in your SQL Server clustered index? |
agilesql |
2019-06-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| A ever-increasing Clustered Key value doesn’t scale |
Klaus Aschenbrenner |
2014-04-15 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server Bit reversion |
Rick |
2011-10-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Troubleshooting a renamed SQL Server |
Jamie Wick |
2019-06-05 |
[DBA] |
| Are Differential Backups Necessary? |
Jamie Wick |
2019-04-02 |
[B][DBA] |
| Updating Statistics on Secondary Replicas of the Availability Groups |
Niko Neugebauer |
2019-06-20 |
[DBA] |
| It’s interesting how an OR short circuits |
Kenneth Fisher |
2019-06-17 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server NOLOCK Anomalies, Issues and Inconsistencies |
Aaron Bertrand |
2019-06-18 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Choosing a Database for Serverless Applications |
Alex DeBrie |
2019-06-22 |
[DEV] |
| SQL Server On Linux: Forced Unit Access (Fua) Internals |
Robert Dorr |
2018-12-18 |
[DBA] |
| Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud |
Microsoft |
2019-05-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| What permissions do temp stored procedures use? |
Kenneth Fisher |
2019-06-19 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Common SQL Server Mishaps |
Tim Radney |
2019-06-21 |
[DBA] |
| SQL Server Agent for SQL Express on Linux |
Thom Andrews |
2019-06-18 |
[DBA] |
| Trailing Spaces in SQL Server |
Bert Wagner |
2019-06-18 |
[DEV] |
| Troubleshooting a Change in Query Performance |
Erin Stellato |
2019-06-20 |
[P] |
| The Silent Bug I Find in Most Triggers |
Brent Ozar |
2019-05-06 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to Copy a Table in SQL Server to Another Database |
Pablo Echeverria |
2019-05-14 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Configuration of SQL Server instance |
Michal Sadowski |
2019-06-18 |
[DBA] |
| What is the SQL Server Virtual Log file and how to monitor it |
Musab Umair |
2017-04-26 |
[DBA] |
| Important change to VLF creation algorithm in SQL Server 2014 |
Paul Randal |
2015-01-06 |
[DBA] |
| SQL Server Transaction Log Fragmentation: a Primer |
Greg Larsen |
2012-04-26 |
[DBA] |
| 8 Steps to better Transaction Log throughput |
Kimberly Tripp |
2019-01-01 |
[DBA] |
| Joins With OR Clauses = 💔 |
Erik Darling |
2019-06-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Thoughts on MAXDOP |
Erik Darling |
2019-06-18 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| What the Arrow Sizes in Query Plans Really Mean |
Brent Ozar |
2019-06-21 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Query Store Best Practices |
Erin Stellato |
2019-06-25 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Introduction to Data Normalization: A Database "Best" Practice |
Scott Wambler |
2019-01-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Dr. OUTPUT or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the MERGE |
Adam Machanic |
2009-08-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server Tipping Games – Why Non-Clustered Indexes are just ignored! |
Klaus Aschenbrenner |
2013-06-12 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server Guide To NULL Handling |
Gavin Draper |
2018-11-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Living with SQL’s 900 Byte Index Key Length Limit |
Bart Duncan |
2011-01-06 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Memory-Optimized TempDB Metadata in SQL Server 2019 |
Ed Pollack |
2019-07-10 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Forcing A Plan That Has A Plan Guide |
Grant Fritchey |
2018-11-26 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Remember the Default Window |
Steve Jones |
2018-08-23 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The Impact of Non-Updating Updates |
Paul Randal |
2010-08-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| What are Columnstore Indexes? |
Monica Rathbun |
2019-07-22 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| PolyBase in SQL Server 2019 – The End of ETL? |
Benjamin Weissman |
2019-07-23 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Overview of Service Principal Name and Kerberos authentication in SQL Server |
Rajendra Gupta |
2019-07-18 |
[DBA] |
| Data Transfer Strategies between MongoDB and SQL Server |
Phil Factor |
2019-07-22 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server and Excel Hierarchyid Example for Organization Charts |
Rick Dobson |
2019-07-04 |
[DEV] |
| Difference between sp_execute and sp_executesql and exec |
Prasad Sahoo |
2015-02-09 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| EXEC and sp_executesql – how are they different? |
Kimberly Tripp |
2010-04-05 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Little Bobby Tables, SQL Injection and EXECUTE AS |
Kimberly Tripp |
2010-04-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Examining the Performance Impact of an Adhoc Workload |
Erin Stellato |
2019-05-22 |
[BENCH] |
| Backup to URL |
Jon Gurgul |
2019-01-01 |
[B][DBA] |
| Spotting Unauthorized Configuration Settings in SQL Server |
Phil Factor |
2018-09-30 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Window Functions in SQL Server |
Fabiano Amorim |
2011-10-27 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Window Functions in SQL Server: Part 2-The Frame |
Fabiano Amorim |
2011-11-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| An Intro to SQL Window Functions |
Neal Barnett |
2019-07-07 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Database Performance Tuning for Developers |
Rodrigo Koch |
1753-01-01 |
[P] |
| “But NOLOCK Is Okay When The Data Isn’t Changing, Right?” |
Brent Ozar |
2019-08-05 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| tempdb Enhancements in SQL Server 2019 |
Erin Stellato |
2019-08-02 |
[BENCH] |
| Feature Restrictions in SQL Server 2019 are Worse Than Useless: a False Sense of Security And Wasted Opportunity |
Solomon Rutzky |
2019-08-05 |
[SEC] |
| How to get SQL Server Sysadmin Privileges as a Local Admin with PowerUpSQL |
Scott Sutherland |
2017-05-23 |
[PS][SEC] |
| Views of the Same Problem: Network Admin, DBA, and Developer |
Kyle Brandt |
2011-03-16 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The SQL Server Data Row Size Question: Why is It Bigger? |
Kendra Little |
2019-03-19 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Finding Max Concurrent Operations With T-SQL (Part 1) |
Kevin Feasel |
2019-01-02 |
[DEV] |
| Finding Max Concurrent Operations With T-SQL (Part 2) |
Kevin Feasel |
2019-01-03 |
[DEV] |
| Stack Overflow: The Architecture - 2016 Edition |
Nick Craver |
2019-02-17 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Stack Overflow: The Hardware - 2016 Edition |
Nick Craver |
2016-03-29 |
[DBA] |
| Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment - 2016 Edition |
Nick Craver |
2016-05-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Stack Overflow: How We Do Monitoring - 2018 Edition |
Nick Craver |
2018-11-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Stack Overflow: How We Do App Caching - 2019 Edition |
Nick Craver |
2019-08-06 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Adding a Missing Index Killed Performance |
Jeffry Schwartz |
2019-08-15 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Corruption in TempDB |
Steve Stedman |
2019-08-12 |
[COR][DBA] |
| Corruption recovery using DBCC WRITEPAGE |
Paul Randal |
2014-02-13 |
[COR][DBA] |
| Why DBCC CHECKDB can miss memory corruption |
Paul Randal |
2017-07-19 |
[COR][DBA] |
| Fixing Cardinality Estimation Errors with Filtered Statistics |
Klaus Aschenbrenner |
2013-10-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Plan Stitch: Harnessing the Best of Many Plans |
Bailu Ding, Sudipto Das Wentao … |
2018-07-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Query and Resource Optimization: Bridging the Gap |
Lalitha Viswanathan, Alekh Jindal … |
2018-02-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Cuttlefish: A Lightweight Primitive for Adaptive Query Processing |
Tomer Kaftan, Magdalena Balazinska … |
2018-02-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Leveraging Re-costing for Online Optimization of Parameterized Queries with Guarantees |
Anshuman Dutt, Vivek Narasayya … |
2017-05-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to choose antivirus software to run on computers that are running SQL Server |
Microsoft |
2018-10-31 |
[DBA][SEC] |
| Why is SYSDATETIME() slower than SYSUTCDATETIME()? |
Erik Darling |
2019-05-28 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Constant Time Recovery in Azure SQL Database |
Panagiotis Antonopoulos, Peter Byrne … |
2019-06-01 |
[AZ] |
| Improving Optimistic Concurrency Control Through Transaction Batching and Operation Reordering |
Bailu Ding, Lucja Kot, Johannes Gehrke |
2019-01-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control |
Yingjun Wu, Joy Arulraj, Jiexi Lin … |
2019-01-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Automatically Indexing Millions of Databases in Microsoft Azure SQL Database |
Sudipto Das, Miroslav Grbic, Igor Ilic … |
2019-01-01 |
[AZ][IDX] |
| Adding a Column with a Default Constraint |
Matthew Mcgiffen |
2019-07-16 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| A Hidden Value Of Apply |
Erik Darling |
2019-06-24 |
[DEV] |
| Improve Performance of UDFs with NULL ON NULL INPUT |
Jonathan Kehayias |
2018-12-27 |
[DEV] |
| The ‘= NULL’ Mistake and other SQL NULL Heresies |
Phill Factor |
2019-06-17 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to Corrupt a Database |
Max Vernon |
2019-07-29 |
[DBA][COR] |
| SQL Server Page Types |
John Huang |
2011-10-31 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server Index Maintenance – You’re Doing It Wrong |
Sean Gallardy |
2019-09-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Stop Worrying About SQL Server Fragmentation |
Brent Ozar |
2012-08-14 |
[DBA] |
| How much will it cost or save to rebuild that index? |
Jeff Moden |
2019-09-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| To BLOB or Not To BLOB: Large Object Storage in a Database or a Filesystem? |
Russell Sears2, Catharine van Ingen … |
2019-04-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server UPSERT Patterns and Antipatterns |
Michael J Swart |
2017-07-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Use Caution with SQL Server's MERGE Statement |
Aaron Bertrand |
2018-07-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| “UPSERT” Race Condition With MERGE |
Dan Guzman |
2009-01-31 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Checking for potential constraint violations before entering SQL Server TRY and CATCH logic |
Aaron Bertrand |
2012-02-18 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Performance impact of different error handling techniques |
Aaron Bertrand |
2012-08-12 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Backup and Restore Databases with CHECKSUM and VERIFYONLY |
Lori Brown |
2019-08-29 |
[B][DBA] |
| dm_db_database_page_allocations |
Max Vernon |
2019-08-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Compress Big Tables |
Max Vernon |
2019-08-22 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Hardening SQL Server Security |
Mitch Wheat |
2019-08-21 |
[DBA][SEC] |
| Splitting Strings With OPENJSON |
Dave Mason |
2019-05-06 |
[DEV][X] |
| How to migrate to Amazon RDS for SQL Server using transactional replication |
Richard Waymire |
2018-05-17 |
[AMZ][MG] |
| The Hardest Part Of Query Tuning: Logical Equivalence |
Erik Darling |
2019-08-13 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Injection: What is it? Causes and exploits |
Ed Pollack |
2019-08-30 |
[SEC] |
| SQL Injection: Detection and prevention |
Ed Pollack |
2019-08-30 |
[SEC] |
| Some T-SQL INSERTs DO Follow the Fill Factor! |
Jeff Moden |
2019-08-08 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Install SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster using Azure Data Studio |
Niels Berglund |
2019-09-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Indirect Checkpoint and tempdb – the good, the bad and the non-yielding scheduler |
Parikshit Savjani |
2018-09-14 |
[DBA] |
| Ghost Records in SQL Server… Now whats that ???? |
Sachin Nandanwar |
2011-04-10 |
[DBA] |
| Transaction Isolation Levels and sp_executesql |
Max Vernon |
2019-08-19 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Batch Mode Bitmaps in SQL Server |
Paul White |
2019-08-23 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) on Azure SQL database |
Ranga Babu |
2019-09-13 |
[DBA][AZ] |
| Analyzing Estimates from the CSelCalcAscendingKeyFilter Calculator |
Josh Darnell |
2019-08-21 |
[DEV] |
| Building Storage for SQL Server (and other database) Virtual Machines in the Cloud |
Joey Dantoni |
2019-09-18 |
[AZ] |
| SQL Server Simple and Forced Parameterization |
Brady Upton |
2013-04-23 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to use a SQL Server Plan Guide to Tune Queries |
Armando Prato |
2018-06-02 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Neglecting to Use, or Misusing, the RETURN Keyword (BP016) |
Phil Factor |
2019-08-14 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Defensive Error Handling |
Alex Kuznetsov |
2010-10-08 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| A Self-Tuning Fill Factor Technique for SQL Server – Part 1 |
Mike Byrd |
2019-08-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| A Self-Tuning Fill Factor Technique for SQL Server – Part 2 |
Mike Byrd |
2019-08-27 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL: Been told you can't access master database system views in Azure SQL Database? Not true! |
Greg Low |
2019-09-17 |
[AZ] |
| How to increase SQL Database Full Backup speed using compression and Solid State Disks |
Henk |
2010-01-15 |
[DBA] |
| Troubleshooting NUMA Node Imbalance Problems (HammerDB Benchmark) |
Klaus Aschenbrenner |
2019-09-23 |
[BENCH] |
| SQL Server Unequal NUMA CPU engagement |
@sqL_handLe |
2019-09-19 |
[DBA] |
| SSIS Connection Managers: OLE DB vs ODBC vs ADO.NET |
Hadi Fadlallah |
2019-10-04 |
[SSIS] |
| SSIS Data Flows – ADO.NET vs. OLE DB vs. ODBC |
Ross at Datatell |
2015-01-13 |
[SSIS] |
| SSIS – Fastest data flow task item for transferring data over the network |
Gilbert Quevauvilliers |
2013-01-19 |
[SSIS] |
| The Case of the Vanishing Index Compression |
Louis Davidson |
2019-09-30 |
[DBA][IDX] |
| Migrating from MSSQL to PostgreSQL - What You Should Know |
Severalnines |
2018-11-05 |
[DEV] |
| Difference between Identity and Sequence in SQL Server 2012 |
Muhammad Imran |
2012-05-01 |
[DEV] |
| Sequence vs Identity – Performance Comparison |
Bill Anton |
2012-09-02 |
[DEV] |
| Read Excel File in SQL Server with OPENROWSET or OPENDATASOURCE |
Diana Moldovan |
2019-10-10 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Upgrading SQL Server using Availability Groups – Checklist |
Thomas Rushton |
2019-10-17 |
[DBA] |
| Using indexed views? WITH (NOEXPAND) for Standard Edition |
Randolph West |
2019-10-09 |
[DEV][IDX] |
| Using indexed views? What is an imprecise or non-deterministic convert? |
Randolph West |
2019-10-16 |
[DEV][IDX] |
| JSON in your Azure SQL Database? Let’s benchmark some options! |
Silvano Coriani |
2019-10-15 |
[X] |
| Looking for strange - addition to system_health XE |
Tibor Karaszi's |
1753-01-01 |
[DBA][XE] |
| What's new in SQL Server version x |
Tibor Karaszi's |
1753-01-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The ultimate guide to the datetime datatypes |
Tibor Karaszi's |
2010-01-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Some numbers that you will know by heart if you have been working with SQL Server for a while |
Unknown |
2019-03-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| #TSQL2sday: How Much Plan Cache History Do You Have? |
Brent Ozar |
2018-07-10 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Fixing SQL Server Management Studio’s Tab Text |
Brent Ozar |
2011-06-07 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| An overview of the SQL table variable |
Rajendra Gupta |
2019-10-16 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Performance Impact of Small Queries |
Forrest McDaniel |
2019-06-15 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How we use SQL Server as a Document Store |
Paul Stovell |
2019-03-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Overlooked T-SQL Gems |
Itzik Ben-Gan |
2019-10-09 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Are SQL Server database triggers evil? |
Daniel Calbimonte |
2017-01-25 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Configuration Best Practices for SQL Server Tempdb–Initial Sizing |
Christian Bolton, Justin Langford … |
2013-02-12 |
[DBA] |
| Sql Server Extended Events Trace Overhead |
Nenad Noveljic |
2018-09-04 |
[DBA] |
| Measuring "Observer Overhead" of SQL Trace vs. Extended Events |
Jonathan Kehayias |
2012-10-23 |
[DBA][XE] |
| Performance overhead of tracing with Extended Event targets vs SQL Trace under CPU Load |
Andreas Wolter |
2013-07-01 |
[DBA][XE] |
| Fragmentation, the final installment |
Tibor Karaszi's |
2019-10-18 |
[DBA][IX] |
| Atomic Durability - How do databases recover from a crash ? |
Pedro Ramalhete |
2019-10-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Truth First, or Why You Should Mostly Implement Database First Designs |
Lukas Eder |
2018-06-06 |
[DEV] |
| SQL Server CHECKPOINT, Lazy Writer, Eager Writer and Dirty Pages in SQL Server |
Rajendra Gupta |
2019-08-22 |
[DBA] |
| T-SQL bugs, pitfalls, and best practices – window functions |
Itzik Ben-Gan |
2019-08-14 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| #BackToBasics: Why I use lower case for data type names (now) |
Aaron Bertrand |
2016-10-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| New high availability and disaster recovery benefits for SQL Server |
Amit Banerjee |
2019-10-30 |
[DBA] |
| Because Your Index Maintenance Script Is Measuring The Wrong Thing |
Eric Darling |
2019-10-28 |
[DBA][IDX] |
| Memory-Optimized TempDB Metadata |
Niko Neugebauer |
2019-10-30 |
[DBA][BENCH] |
| Build a SQL Cluster Lab Part 1 |
Ryan Adams |
2019-10-28 |
[DBA] |
| There is no Such Thing as Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch |
Lukas Eder |
2015-08-26 |
[DEV] |
| ORMs Under the Hood |
Patrycja Dybka |
2015-08-18 |
[DEV] |
| EMERGENCY-mode repair: the very, very last resort |
Paul Randal |
2007-10-02 |
[DBA] |
| Scalar functions and improvements in SQL Server 2019 |
Tibor Karaszi's |
2019-11-07 |
[DEV] |
| Scalar functions in SQL server 2019, part 2 |
Tibor Karaszi's |
2019-11-07 |
[DEV] |
| Dos and Don'ts of Dynamic SQL |
Thom Andrews |
2019-04-29 |
[DEV][DBA] |
| Differences Between Sql Server TEXT and VARCHAR(MAX) Data Type |
Basavaraj Biradar |
2016-05-11 |
[DEV][DBA] |
| VARBINARY(MAX) Tames the BLOB |
Michael Otey |
2006-08-22 |
[DEV][DBA] |
| Query Store Options in SSMS 18.4 |
Erin Stellato |
2019-11-12 |
[DBA][QS] |
| Query Store Performance Overhead: What you need to know |
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2018-11-06 |
[DBA][QS] |
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Rob Sewell |
2019-11-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Eric Darling |
2019-11-27 |
[DBA][IDX] |
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Patrick Benson |
2014-02-25 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Paul Randal |
2010-05-11 |
[DBA] |
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@sqL_handLe |
2019-11-19 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Randolph West |
2019-11-27 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| A Guide to SQL Naming Conventions |
Lukas Eder |
2019-10-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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2019-11-13 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Forrest McDaniel |
2019-11-26 |
[DBA] |
| Recover SQL Server Resource Database |
Daniel Farina |
2019-10-25 |
[DBA] |
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Phil Factor |
2019-11-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Phil Factor |
2019-12-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Dwain Camps |
2013-07-25 |
[DEV] |
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Pamela Mooney |
2019-04-17 |
[DBA] |
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Pedro Lopes |
2018-07-06 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Eric Darling |
2019-11-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Eric Darling |
2019-11-14 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Eric Darling |
2019-11-15 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Kendra Little |
2019-12-09 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How filtered indexes could be a more powerful feature |
Aaron Bertrand |
2013-04-24 |
[IDX] |
| How Forced Parameterization in SQL Server Affects Filtered Indexes |
Aaron Bertrand |
2019-09-19 |
[IDX] |
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Aaron Bertrand |
2019-12-03 |
[IDX] |
| Interpreting SQL Server 2019 DBCC MEMORYSTATUS output -- Part 1 |
@sqL_handLe |
2019-12-15 |
[DBA] |
| Invisible tempdb Killer |
Josh Darnell |
2019-12-18 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Batch Mode On Row Store Is Fickle |
Eric Darling |
2019-12-19 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Use Azure To Store Sql Server Backups Offsite |
Sander Stad |
2019-12-18 |
[AZ][B] |
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Drew |
2019-12-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Milos Radivojevic |
2019-12-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server–HOW-TO: quickly retrieve accurate row count for table |
martijnh1 |
2010-07-15 |
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| Do You Have REFERENCES? |
Joe Celko |
2019-12-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Aaron Bertrand |
2019-12-27 |
[DBA] |
| How to Make SELECT COUNT(*) Queries Crazy Fast |
Brent Ozar |
2019-12-26 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Steve Rezhener |
2019-12-26 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Randolph West |
2019-12-25 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Paul White |
2014-04-15 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Liwei |
2019-11-14 |
[DBA] |
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Kenneth Fisher |
2013-11-18 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| A Script To Automatically Align Columnstore Indexes To Enhance Segment Elimination (and Hence Performances) |
Emanuele Meazzo |
2018-06-04 |
[DBA][IDX] |
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Daniel Farina |
2018-01-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Rajendra Gupta |
2020-01-06 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Aaron Bertrand |
2020-01-07 |
[DBA][IDX] |
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Randolph West |
2020-01-08 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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aveek22 |
2020-01-06 |
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| SQL Server Security Best Practices for an Application Installed on SQL Server |
Svetlana Golovko |
2019-12-08 |
[DBA][SEC] |
| PCI Best Practices Guide for SQL Server DBAs |
Tibor Nagy |
2015-05-08 |
[DBA][SEC] |
| SQL Server Security Checklist |
Tibor Nagy |
2014-02-06 |
[DBA][SEC] |
| Replace Model SQL Server Database with a User Database |
Daniel Farina |
2019-12-13 |
[DBA] |
| SQL Server Linux installation for Amazon EC2 instance with Red Hat OS |
Rajendra Gupta |
2020-01-09 |
[AMZ |
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Thomas Rushton |
2020-01-03 |
[DBA] |
| The Curious Case of… transactions rolling back during DBCC CHECKDB |
Paul Randal |
2020-01-15 |
[DBA] |
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Randolph West |
2020-01-15 |
[DBA] |
| NULL complexities – Part 1 |
Itzik Ben-Gan |
2019-12-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Itzik Ben-Gan |
2020-01-08 |
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2020-02-12 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Nisarg Upadhyay |
2019-12-27 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Rob Farley |
2016-06-02 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Jess Pomfret |
2019-08-12 |
[B][DBA] |
| How Many Bytes Per Character in SQL Server: a Completely Complete Guide |
Solomon Rutzky |
2019-11-12 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Storage 101: Welcome to the Wonderful World of Storage |
Robert Sheldon |
2019-12-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to detect and prevent unexpected growth of the TempDB database |
Ahmad Yaseen |
2020-01-13 |
[DBA] |
| Understanding the SQL Server Proportional fill algorithm |
Ahmad Yaseen |
2016-11-22 |
[DBA] |
| VALUES() and Long Parameter Lists |
Joe Celko |
2010-07-22 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Going Serverless with Azure SQL Database |
John Miner |
2019-12-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQLskills SQL101: Why are Statistics so Important? |
Kimberly Tripp |
2020-01-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Configuring SQL Server Express edition as SQL witness server in Database Mirroring |
Nisarg Upadhyay |
2020-01-20 |
[DBA] |
| The Half Apply Query |
Forrest McDaniel |
2020-01-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Import JSON data into SQL Server |
Rajendra Gupta |
2020-01-17 |
[X] |
| Auditing in AWS RDS SQL Server |
Rajendra Gupta |
2020-01-20 |
[DBA] |
| Types of SQL Server Indexes |
Ben Snaidero |
2019-12-24 |
[IDX] |
| Use SQL Server's UNPIVOT operator to help normalize output |
Aaron Bertrand |
2013-07-12 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Prevent SSMS from seeing the server's file system |
Randi Vertongen |
2019-09-02 |
[DBA] |
| Add the ability to disable or enable a few new DMVs and DMFs introduced in SQL Server 2017 |
Microsoft |
2017-11-08 |
[DBA] |
| Actual Difference Between EXISTS(SELECT 1 …), EXISTS(SELECT * …), and EXISTS(SELECT column …) |
Solomon Rutzky |
2020-01-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Why Wait Stats Alone Are Not Enough |
Greg Gonzalez |
2020-01-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Estimating AWS RDS SQL Server costs |
Rajendra Gupta |
2020-01-23 |
[DEV] |
| SQL Server Performance Tuning Using Wait Statistics: A Beginner’s Guide |
Jonathan Kehayias, Erin Stellato |
2014-04-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| sys.xp_delete_files and ‘allow filesystem enumeration’: two new undocumented items in SQL Server 2019 |
Solomon Rutzky |
2020-01-26 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Why Database Monitoring Tools Are So Hard to Interpret |
Brent Ozar |
2020-01-27 |
[DBA] |
| Extended Events Misperceptions: Profiler Is Easier |
Grant Fritchey |
2020-01-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Grant Fritchey |
2020-01-27 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Automate SFTP File Transfer with SQL Server Agent and WinSCP |
Joe Gavin |
2020-01-16 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Running Database Console Commands (DBCCs) on Azure SQL Database |
Marcin Policht |
2020-01-20 |
[AZ] |
| How to Remove Times from Dates in SQL Server |
Brent Ozar |
2020-01-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Export/Import Data using BCP - SQL Server on Linux |
Carlos Robles |
2020-01-30 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Prevent SQL Server Blocking using Lock_Timeout |
Bhavesh Patel |
2020-01-07 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Bin Packing Problems: The SQL |
Joe Celko |
2012-03-22 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Causation, Correlation and Crackpots |
Joe Celko |
2009-09-15 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| What Events are in a Trace? |
Erin Stellato |
2020-01-23 |
[DBA] |
| What Are Soft Deletes, and How Are They Implemented? |
Brent Ozar |
2020-02-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Why You Should Switch in Staging Tables Instead of Renaming Them (Dear SQL DBA Episode 26) |
Kendra Little |
2017-01-19 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Andy Mallon |
2019-12-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Andy Mallon |
2019-12-17 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Testing as another user…without their password - impersonate the other user |
Andy Mallon |
2019-12-18 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How does a database RESTORE affect plan cache? |
Andy Mallon |
2019-10-24 |
[DBA] |
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Andy Mallon |
2019-10-12 |
[DBA] |
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Andy Mallon |
2019-04-04 |
[DBA] |
| Blocking with OBJECT_NAME() |
Andy Mallon |
2019-12-24 |
[DBA] |
| Performance Myths: The query result cache |
Andy Mallon |
2018-07-23 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Fun with (columnstore) compression on a very large table – part 3 |
Aaron Bertrand |
2020-02-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Daniel Hutmacher |
2013-02-19 |
[IDX] |
| Working with covering indexes |
Daniel Hutmacher |
2013-02-19 |
[IDX] |
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Jeff Iannucci |
2020-01-28 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Jonathan Kehayias |
2013-01-16 |
[DBA][SEC] |
| Securing Data in SQL Server |
Jonathan Kehayias |
2020-01-27 |
[DBA][SEC] |
| Performance Testing SQL 2008's Transparent Data Encryption |
Rob Garrison |
2009-04-20 |
[DBA] |
| Common SQL Server Security Issues and Solutions |
Paul Randal |
2016-10-04 |
[DBA][SEC] |
| Chaos Engineering and SQL Server |
Andrew Pruski |
2020-01-29 |
[DBA] |
| Different methods to attach SQL Server MDF files |
Nisarg Upadhyay |
2020-02-07 |
[DBA] |
| Learn SQL: How to Write a Complex SELECT Query |
Emil Drkusic |
2020-02-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Filling In Missing Values Using the T-SQL Window Frame |
Dwain Camps |
2014-09-18 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Select * in a view |
Reitse Eskens |
2020-02-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| T-SQL TUESDAY #123: Aggregates of Aggregates using Windowing Functions |
James Mcgillivray |
2020-02-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server Statistics: Explained |
Krishna Golla |
2012-09-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to Pass a List of Values Into a Stored Procedure |
Brent Ozar |
2020-02-13 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| What's the difference between a temp table and table variable in SQL Server? |
Paul White |
2019-05-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Be Mindful of SQL Server Tempdb Use (aka Tempdb Parasites!) |
Jason Hall |
2020-01-28 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Robyn Page’s SQL Server Cursor Workbench (Quirky Update) |
Robyn Page |
2007-01-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Solving the Running Total and Ordinal Rank Problems (Rewritten) (Quirky Update) |
Jeff Moden |
2012-01-27 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Running totals in “Denali” CTP3 (Quirky Update) |
Wayne Sheffield |
2011-08-23 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Brent Ozar |
2020-02-18 |
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Brent Ozar |
2020-02-19 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to solve the SQL Identity Crisis in SQL Server |
Ed Pollack |
2017-11-14 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Significant SQL Server 2019 licensing changes |
Kevin Chant |
2020-02-17 |
[DBA] |
| Indexed View Maintenance Is Only As Bad As Your Indexes |
Erik Darling |
2020-02-19 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Why Design Impacts Performance on Microsoft SQL Server |
Kevin Kline |
2020-01-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Apply versus Nested Loops Join |
Paul White |
2019-06-09 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Paul White |
2010-07-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Inside the Optimizer: Constructing a Plan - Part 2 |
Paul White |
2010-07-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Inside the Optimizer: Constructing a Plan - Part 3 |
Paul White |
2010-07-31 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Inside the Optimizer: Constructing a Plan - Part 4 |
Paul White |
2010-07-31 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Tips for dealing with large SQL Server scripts |
Kevin Chant |
2020-02-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Database Normalization in SQL with Examples |
Gouri Shankar |
2020-02-18 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Why SQL Server May Not Parallelize a Query |
SolarWinds |
2015-10-30 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Parallelism in SQL Server Execution Plan |
Ahmad Yaseen |
2018-03-30 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| An XEvent a Day (26 of 31) – Configuring Session Options |
Jonathan Kehayias |
2010-12-26 |
[XE] |
| Azure SQL Managed Instance Performance Considerations |
Tim Radney |
2020-02-26 |
[AZ] |
| The Curious Case of… whether corruption can propagate to secondary databases |
Paul Randal |
2020-02-26 |
[COR][DBA] |
| Stop and Think Before You Shrink – Shrinking a SQL Server Database |
Jeff Mlakar |
2018-09-25 |
[DBA] |
| How to Analyze the SQL Server Error Log |
Jeff Mlakar |
2018-11-02 |
[DBA] |
| Converting SQL Trace to Extended Events in SQL Server 2012 |
Jonathan Kehayias |
2012-04-04 |
[DBA] |
| What event information can I get by default from SQL Server? |
Aaron Bertrand |
2019-03-28 |
[DBA] |
| Removing the default trace – Part 1 |
Aaron Bertrand |
2020-03-02 |
[DBA] |
| Removing the default trace – Part 2 |
Aaron Bertrand |
2020-03-02 |
[DBA] |
| Removing the default trace – Part 3 |
Aaron Bertrand |
2020-03-02 |
[DBA] |
| Keeping DRY in SQL Server with Scalar User Defined Functions – Part 1 |
Adrian Hills |
2020-02-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Different Ways to Monitor SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups |
Nisarg Upadhyay |
2020-02-21 |
[DBA] |
| SQL Server internals: Is Order of Column in the table important? |
Ronen Ariely |
2018-08-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Code: Order of columns in table might impact the size of the table/database and even related to errors |
Ronen Ariely |
2019-10-13 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server Internals: Getting the data of deleted column |
Ronen Ariely |
2018-11-28 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Queue table issues with Availability Groups in SQL Server |
Aaron Bertrand |
2020-01-29 |
[DBA] |
| Transact-SQL: openjson hierarchy solution |
Ronen Ariely |
2019-09-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| CREATE DLL TRIGGER ON CREATE_LOGIN to configure default parameters for any new LOGIN |
Ronen Ariely |
2019-10-12 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Code: Order of columns in table might impact the size of the table/database and even related to errors |
Ronen Ariely |
2019-10-13 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server Internals: Getting the data of deleted column |
Ronen Ariely |
2018-08-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL varchar data type deep dive |
Gauri Mahajan |
2019-05-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| What is the datatype SQL_VARIANT |
Kenneth Fisher |
2020-04-16 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| An Introduction to Asynchronous Processing with Service Broker |
Jonathan Kehayias |
2014-03-18 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Detecting and Alerting on SQL Server Agent Missed Jobs |
Ed Pollack |
2019-02-21 |
[DBA][J] |
| Execute multiple jobs Synchronously from in a main job |
Ronen Ariely |
2020-04-11 |
[J] |
| Why Ordering Isn’t Guaranteed Without an ORDER BY |
Brent Ozar |
2020-04-22 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to Attach a SQL Server Database without a Transaction Log and with Open Transactions |
Daniel Farina |
2020-04-29 |
[COR] |
| SQL 2016 - It Just Runs Faster: Indirect Checkpoint Default |
Ryan Stonecipher, Peter Byrne, Bob Dorr |
2016-04-12 |
[DBA][CHP] |
| Indirect Checkpoint and tempdb – the good, the bad and the non-yielding scheduler |
Parikshit Savjani |
2017-06-26 |
[DBA][CHP] |
| How do checkpoints work and what gets logged |
Paul Randal |
2009-09-27 |
[DBA][CHP] |
| Inside the Storage Engine: What’s in the buffer pool? |
Paul Randal |
2008-08-26 |
[DBA] |
| What does checkpoint do for tempdb? |
Paul Randal |
2009-10-07 |
[DBA][CHP] |
| Performance issues from wasted buffer pool memory |
Paul Randal |
2011-06-01 |
[DBA] |
| How It Works: When is the FlushCache message added to SQL Server Error Log? |
Bob Dorr |
2012-01-06 |
[DBA] |
| Negative identity values don’t suck |
Randolph West |
2020-05-06 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How SQL Server stores data types: integers and decimals |
Randolph West |
2020-05-13 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How SQL Server stores data types: DATETIME, DATE, TIME, and DATETIME2 |
Randolph West |
2020-04-22 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Cross Database Transactions on One Server |
Michael J Swart |
2020-05-15 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Your Views Aren’t The Problem. Your Code Is. |
Brent Ozar |
2020-05-06 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Can I Offload DBCC CHECKDB To Another Server? |
Brent Ozar |
2020-05-19 |
[DBA] |
| Negative (-) is an operator and will affect the order of operations. |
Kenneth Fisher |
2020-05-18 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| "0 to 60" : Switching to indirect checkpoints |
Aaron Bertrand |
2020-05-01 |
[DBA][CHP] |
| Parallelism Can Make Queries Perform Worse. |
Brent Ozar |
2020-05-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (15/30) checkpoint only writes pages from committed transactions |
Paul Randal |
2010-04-15 |
[DBA][CHP] |
| Can You Use NVARCHAR As a Universal Parameter? Almost. |
Brent Ozar |
2020-04-30 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The Learner’s Guide to SQL Server Performance Triage |
Kendra Little |
2020-03-19 |
[DBA] |
| Learner’s Guide to SQL Server Query Tuning |
Kendra Little |
2020-05-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to Get Better Estimates for Modification Queries |
Brent Ozar |
2020-04-27 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SSMS: Prevent Copy and Paste of Text in “Messages” tab (Cruel Joke #2) |
Solomon Rutzky |
2020-05-22 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Compare the Best SQL Server Performance Monitoring Tools |
SentryOne |
2020-01-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Minimal Logging with INSERT…SELECT into Heap Tables |
Paul White |
2020-05-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Minimal Logging with INSERT…SELECT into Empty Clustered Tables |
Paul White |
2020-05-16 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Minimal Logging with INSERT…SELECT and Fast Load Context |
Paul White |
2020-05-19 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Avoiding SQL Server Upgrade Performance Issues |
Glenn Berry |
2020-02-05 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Compatibility Levels and Cardinality Estimation Primer |
Glenn Berry |
2020-01-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| An approach to index tuning – Part 1 |
Erin Stellato |
2020-03-26 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| An approach to index tuning – Part 2 |
Erin Stellato |
2020-04-13 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Moving A Database to New Storage With No Downtime |
Bob Pusateri |
2013-03-12 |
[DBA] |
| RESOURCE_GOVERNOR_IDLE in Azure |
Josh Darnell |
2020-06-15 |
[AZ] |
| Automated Backup Tuning |
Nicholas Cain |
2012-12-13 |
[B] |
| Optimizing Database Restores |
Nicholas Cain |
2011-09-26 |
[DBA] |
| AVAILABILITY_REPLICA - The Deception of the Log Reuse Wait Type |
Nicholas Cain |
2020-05-19 |
[DBA] |
| Changing an INT to a BIGINT with no downtime |
Michael J Swart |
2020-06-19 |
[DBA] |
| New Metadata-Only Column Changes in SQL Server 2016 |
Paul White |
2020-04-17 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Bandwidth-friendly Query Profiling for Azure SQL Database |
Greg Gonzalez |
2020-04-15 |
[AZ][XE] |
| When a Columnstore Index Makes Your Query Fail |
Brent Ozar |
2020-06-10 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Column scope and binding order in subqueries |
Gail Shaw |
2019-04-23 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Improve SQL Server Extended Events system_health Session |
Aaron Bertrand |
2020-06-17 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Page Life Expectancy Doesn’t Mean Jack, and You Should Stop Looking At It. |
Brent Ozar |
2020-06-17 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Unsupported but working versions of SQL Server on Windows Server 2019 |
Randolph West |
2020-06-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Bad Idea Jeans: Building Big Query Plans |
Brent Ozar |
2020-06-23 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server performance tuning – RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE waits |
Timothy Smith |
2020-06-16 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Use session_context to create a “variable” that lasts between batches. |
Kenneth Fisher |
2020-05-26 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Phase out CONTEXT_INFO() in SQL Server 2016 with SESSION_CONTEXT() |
Aaron Bertrand |
2015-11-19 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to Balance SQL Server Core Licenses Across NUMA Nodes |
Glenn Berry |
2020-06-25 |
[DBA] |
| What is the Difference Between Physical Sockets, Physical Cores, and Logical Cores? |
Glenn Berry |
2019-12-18 |
[DBA] |
| What is the Difference Between Physical Sockets, Physical Cores, and Logical Cores? |
Kevin Kline |
2020-06-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The 201 Buckets Problem, Part 1: Why You Still Don’t Get Accurate Estimates |
Brent Ozar |
2020-07-07 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The 201 Buckets Problem, Part 2: How Bad Estimates Backfire As Your Data Grows |
Brent Ozar |
2020-07-08 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Sql Server — Widely Random Query Exec Times (cxconsumer Wait/cxpacket) & Possible Remediation |
VIKTOR |
2020-06-26 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How MAXDOP Really Works |
Paul White |
2020-06-07 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| What is MaxDOP controlling? |
Pedro Lopes |
2020-07-07 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| What If You Really DO Need to Shrink a Database? |
Brent Ozar |
2020-07-14 |
[DBA] |
| Everything I Never Wanted to Know About Collation |
Kendra Little |
2020-07-16 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Comparing SSIS And Azure Data Factory |
Tim Mitchell |
2020-07-16 |
[AZ][SSIS] |
| sp_Blitz for All Servers |
Garry Bargsley |
2020-07-14 |
[DBA] |
| Where is the SQL Server Community Networking Online? |
Brent Ozar |
2020-07-13 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Make the most out of your Azure Disks using Storage Pools |
Roberto Marras |
2020-07-01 |
[AZ][DBA] |
| SQL Server High Availability Solutions on Azure VMs |
Marco Obinu |
2020-07-12 |
[AZ][DBA] |
| How to Get Started with SQL Server Management Studio |
Brent Ozar |
2020-07-21 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How should I store currency values in SQL Server? |
Randolph West |
2020-06-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Read committed isolation level doesn’t guarantee much… |
Paul Randal |
2010-04-17 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Prevent Unexpected Failovers When Patching AGs |
Josh Darnell |
2010-05-21 |
[DBA] |
| Updating Statistics Causes Parameter Sniffing |
Brent Ozar |
2010-06-02 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The Ascending Key Problem in Fact Tables– Part one: Pain! |
Thomas Kejser |
2011-01-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The Ascending Key Problem In Fact Tables –Part Two: Stat Job! |
Thomas Kejser |
2011-07-07 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Are Statistics Being Used for inserted and deleted tables and table variables? |
Deborah Melkin |
2020-05-05 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Tackling Imperial and US Customary Measurements in Databases |
Phil Factor |
2020-05-06 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| In-Memory OLTP Best Practices – Part 1 |
Jon Guerin, Daniel Taylor |
2020-03-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| In-Memory OLTP Best Practices – Part 2 |
Jon Guerin, Daniel Taylor |
2020-05-06 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases |
Jaana Dogan |
2020-04-21 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Online migrations at scale |
Jacqueline Xu |
2017-02-02 |
[DBA] |
| The Dirty (Baker’s) Dozen of SQL Server Technical Debt |
Andy Jones |
2020-06-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| 15 SQL Server Performance Counters to Monitor In 2020 |
Allen White |
2020-05-05 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Pulling Group By Above a Join |
Paul White |
2020-05-31 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQLskills SQL101: Running out of ints and bigints |
Paul Randal |
2017-10-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Parallel Execution Plans – Branches and Threads |
Paul White |
2013-10-07 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Understanding and Using Parallelism in SQL Server |
Paul White |
2011-03-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Top Asked Availability Group Questions… and Maybe Some Helpful Tidbits as Answers |
Sean Gallardy |
2020-06-16 |
[DBA] |
| The 201 Buckets Problem, Part 1: Why You Still Don’t Get Accurate Estimates |
Brent Ozar |
2020-07-07 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The 201 Buckets Problem, Part 2: How Bad Estimates Backfire As Your Data Grows |
Brent Ozar |
2020-07-08 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Encrypting SQL Server Database Backups |
David Fowler |
2018-04-04 |
[DBA] |
| Using Track Causality to Understand Query Execution |
Erin Stellato |
2019-01-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Understanding SQL Server Backup Types |
Prashanth Jayaram |
2018-04-19 |
[B][DBA] |
| Scripting the Description of Database Tables Using Extended Properties |
Phil Factor |
2020-03-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The Table Variable in SQL Server |
Esat Erkec |
2019-12-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Multiple Plans for an "Identical" Query |
Aaron Bertrand |
2014-11-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Another argument for stored procedures versus ORM versus Add Hoc Queries |
Aaron Bertrand |
2013-05-17 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Bad habits to kick : avoiding the schema prefix |
Aaron Bertrand |
2019-09-12 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How not to call Hekaton natively-compiled stored procedures |
Aaron Bertrand |
2015-06-05 |
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| A One-Slide Summary of the Differences Between TDE and Always Encrypted |
Brent Ozar |
2020-07-31 |
[SEC] |
| Remember “Nothing Stops a Hekaton Transaction?” Yeah, About That. |
Brent Ozar |
2020-07-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Finding & Downloading Required SQL Server Updates |
Andy Levy |
2020-07-21 |
[DBA] |
| SQLskills SQL101: Why do some wait types need to be ignored? |
Paul Randal |
2018-05-23 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| What is the SOS_WORK_DISPATCHER Wait Type? (Or how to work with Call Stacks in SQL Server) |
Joe Obbish |
2018-09-27 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server 2019 Aggregate Splitting |
Paul White |
2020-08-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Ronen Ariely |
2019-10-13 |
[DBA][SEC] |
| Execute multiple jobs Synchronously from in a main job |
Ronen Ariely |
2020-04-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The Trillion Row Table |
Joe Obbish |
2020-08-12 |
[BENCH] |
| Temporal Tables and Table Partitioning: Not If You Like Switching Partitions |
Erik Darlling |
2020-03-03 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Long Running Query on Read-Only Replica that takes moments on the Primary |
Sean Gallardy,Joe Obbish |
2019-09-05 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Date Tables are Great for Users, but Not So Great for Performance |
Brent Ozar |
2020-08-05 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Should I install SSMS on a server running SQL Server? |
Andy Mallon |
2020-04-14 |
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| Finding a table name from a page ID |
Paul Randal |
2014-09-25 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Paul White |
2020-04-17 |
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| Can You Fail To Spill To tempdb? |
Josh Darnell |
2019-07-17 |
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| Migrating SQL workloads to Microsoft Azure: Databases Trip to Azure SQL Database |
Ahmad Yaseen |
2020-08-03 |
[AZ][DBA] |
| How It Works: Bob Dorr's SQL Server I/O Presentation |
Bob Dorr |
2010-03-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Who does SQL Server run xp_cmdshell command as? |
Steve Stedman |
2020-04-14 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Transaction Modes in SQL Server |
Kevin Feasel |
2020-08-10 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Working Effectively with Legacy SQL |
Kevin Feasel |
2015-03-15 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (26/30) nested transactions are real |
Paul Randal |
2010-04-26 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| dbatools multithreading commands with PoshRSJob module |
Kin |
2019-01-04 |
[DBA][PS] |
| SQL Server Debugging with WinDbg – an Introduction |
Klaus Aschenbrenner |
2014-05-05 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Looking deeper into SQL Server using Minidumps |
Thomas Kejser |
2009-09-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Anatomy of a spool operators in SQL Server execution plans |
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2020-01-01 |
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| CAST v/s CONVERT – Is there a difference as far as SQL Server is concerned? Which is better? |
Nakul Vachhrajani |
2011-07-18 |
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| #BackToBasics: CAST vs. CONVERT |
Aaron Bertrand |
2016-11-02 |
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| Productivity Hacks: Migrate in Minutes to the Most Current Version of SQL Server |
Chris Lumnah |
2020-07-29 |
[DBA] |
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Bohumír Kubík |
2011-01-11 |
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| The Curious Case of… the 8060-byte row size limit |
Paul Randal |
2020-03-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| .NET TransactionScope Considered Annoying - Default Isolation Level is Serializable |
Josh Darnell |
2020-07-27 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Parameter Sniffing, Embedding, and the RECOMPILE Options |
Paul White |
2013-08-28 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Why You’re Tuning Stored Procedures Wrong (the Problem with Local Variables) |
Kendra Little |
2020-05-06 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Yet Another Post About Local Variables |
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2020-03-31 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Niko Neugebauer |
2020-03-30 |
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| Temporary Table Caching Explained |
Paul White |
2012-08-17 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server Temporary Object Caching |
Paul White |
2017-05-02 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Joe Obbish |
2017-08-24 |
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| 3 Ways to Run DBCC CHECKDB Faster |
Brent Ozar |
2020-08-27 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Back Up SQL Server 43%-67% Faster by Writing to Multiple Files |
Brent Ozar |
2020-08-23 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Bad Habits to Kick : Using SELECT * / omitting the column list |
Aaron Bertrand |
2009-10-10 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| All The Problems With Select * |
Erik Darlling |
2019-12-10 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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2019-11-18 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Forrest McDaniel |
2020-08-12 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQL Server 100% Online Deployments |
Michael J Swart |
2018-01-05 |
[DBA] |
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2017-12-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The Curious Case of… setting up a server for DBCC CHECKDB |
Paul Randal |
2020-08-24 |
[DBA] |
| When should a primary key be declared non-clustered? |
Paul White |
2012-12-01 |
[IDX] |
| Guid vs INT - Which is better as a primary key? |
Sandeep Kumar M |
2011-01-05 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Control SQL Jobs based on HADR Role – Taking it to the Next Level |
Eitan Blumin |
2020-05-26 |
[DBA][J] |
| SQL Friday #16: Eitan Blumin on “How to HADR Your SQL Jobs” |
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2020-07-31 |
[DBA][J] |
| Choosing the Correct Azure VM Size for Your Workload |
Eric Smith |
2020-09-09 |
[AZ][DBA] |
| Table Partitioning in SQL Server – The Basics |
Cathrine Wilhelmsen |
2015-04-12 |
[AZ][DBA] |
| Table Partitioning in SQL Server – Partition Switching |
Cathrine Wilhelmsen |
2015-04-19 |
[AZ][DBA] |
| TempDB in SQL Server |
SentryOne |
2020-09-15 |
[DBA] |
| SQL Server’s Cost Threshold for Parallelism |
Kendra Little |
2014-11-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Kendra Little |
2014-05-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Protecting your data against unauthorised reads on SQL Server |
Monin |
2020-06-24 |
[SEC] |
| SET IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS ON Is One Hell of a Bad Idea |
Brent Ozar |
2019-05-06 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Tempdb: The Ghost Of Version Store |
Stijn Wynants |
2015-11-09 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| When Tempdb Becomes Permanentdb (In-memory tempdb metadata and Resource governor problems) |
Glenn Boonen |
2020-05-07 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| A SQL Server DBA myth a day: (26/30) nested transactions are real |
Paul Randal |
2010-04-26 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The Best Medium-Hard Data Analyst SQL Interview Questions |
Zachary Thomas |
2020-01-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Starting SQL: Why Not Make Everything Dynamic? |
Eric Darling |
2020-09-28 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| dbatools multithreading commands |
Kin |
2019-01-04 |
[PS] |
| Preventing Brute Force Attacks in SQL Server |
Raul Gonzalez |
2020-01-01 |
[SEC] |
| Asynchronous T-SQL Execution Without Service Broker |
Oleg Vorkunov |
2008-09-15 |
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Koen Verbeeck |
2019-10-15 |
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| Capturing Queries Can Be A Pain |
Grant Fritchey |
2020-08-03 |
[XE] |
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2020-08-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Starting SQL: Measuring A Query |
Eric Darling |
2020-09-28 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| When to use SET vs SELECT when assigning values to variables in SQL Server |
Atif Shehzad |
2009-11-25 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| What is the difference between SET and SELECT when assigning values to variables, in T-SQL? |
Narayana Vyas Kondreddi |
2005-10-29 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| CHECKDB From Every Angle: How long will CHECKDB take to run? |
Paul Randal |
2007-11-15 |
[DBA] |
| CHECKDB From Every Angle: Consistency Checking Options for a VLDB |
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2007-11-19 |
[DBA] |
| Minimizing the impact of DBCC CHECKDB : DOs and DON'Ts |
Aaron Bertrand |
2012-11-29 |
[DBA] |
| A faster CHECKDB – Part II |
Bob Ward |
2012-02-23 |
[DBA] |
| A faster CHECKDB – Part III |
Bob Dorr |
2014-11-10 |
[DBA] |
| A faster CHECKDB – Part III |
Bob Dorr |
2015-01-26 |
[DBA] |
| A faster CHECKDB – Part IV (SQL CLR UDTs) |
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2015-01-26 |
[DBA] |
| Minimize performance impact of SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB |
Robert Pearl |
2011-06-02 |
[DBA] |
| Starting SQL: A Little More Fun With Logging Dynamic SQL |
Eric Darling |
2020-10-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Paul White |
2015-01-23 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Parameter Sniffing in SQL Server 2019: Air_Quote_Actual Plans |
Brent Ozar |
2020-05-26 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Guide For Set Up Of Telegraf For Monitoring Sql Server Xplat |
Tracy Boggiano |
2018-02-24 |
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Adrian Hills |
2020-10-21 |
[AZ] |
| sql_handle and the SQL Server batch text hash |
Paul White |
2020-10-11 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Navigating DBCC CHECKDB for VLDB |
Aaron Bertrand |
2020-11-05 |
[DBA] |
| Hidden Formatting Troubles with STR() (SQL Spackle) |
Jeff Moden |
2019-04-26 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| The What, Why, When, and How of Incremental Loads |
Tim Mitchell |
2020-07-23 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How Do I Know If My Query Is Good Enough for Production? |
Brent Ozar |
2020-08-12 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to Find Out Whose Queries are Using The Most CPU |
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2020-08-10 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Limitations of SQL Server Native Backup and Restore in Amazon RDS |
Sadequl Hussain |
2017-08-23 |
[AMZ][B] |
| SQL Server Native Backup and Restore in Amazon RDS |
Sadequl Hussain |
2017-08-18 |
[AMZ][B] |
| What Is the SQL Server CEIP Service (telemetry)? |
Brent Ozar |
2020-10-07 |
[DBA] |
| Maximum Simultaneous User Connections |
Michael J Swart |
2020-10-16 |
[DBA] |
| Find Database Connection Leaks in Your Application |
Michael J Swart |
2017-07-07 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to Troubleshoot THREADPOOL Waits and Deadlocked Schedulers |
Eitan Blumin |
2020-10-05 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Prevent Lock Escalation On Indexed Views |
Thomas Costers |
2019-10-30 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Concatenating Strings in SQL Server |
Guy Glantser |
2020-11-10 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Why Full Text’s CONTAINS Queries Are So Slow |
Brent Ozar |
2020-11-07 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Migrating SSIS to Azure – an Overview |
Koen Verbeeck |
2020-11-03 |
[AZ][MG] |
| Why Full Text’s CONTAINS Queries Are So Slow |
Brent Ozar |
2020-11-12 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| A Parameterization Puzzle With TOP: Part 1 |
Eric Darling |
2020-10-21 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| A Parameterization Puzzle With TOP: Part 2 |
Eric Darling |
2020-10-22 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Eric Darling |
2020-10-22 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Explore dynamic management views for monitoring SQL Server Always On Availability Groups |
Rajendra Gupta |
2020-11-16 |
[DBA] |
| Deploy SQLWATCH to SQL Server using GitHub Actions |
Kevin Chant |
2020-11-17 |
[DBA] |
| SQL Server table hints – WITH (NOLOCK) best practices |
Ahmad Yaseen |
2018-02-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Memory-Optimized TempDB Metadata in SQL Server 2019 |
Aaron Bertrand |
2020-02-14 |
[DBA] |
| What permissions do temp stored procedures use? |
Kenneth Fisher |
2019-06-19 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| SQLskills SQL101: Should you kill that long-running transaction? |
Paul Randal |
2020-10-10 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| A quick and dirty scan of a list of instances using a dynamic linked server |
Kenneth Fisher |
2020-11-12 |
[DBA] |
| sp_whoisactive: Analyzing Tempdb Contention |
Adam Machanic |
2017-01-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How to Choose Between RCSI and Snapshot Isolation Levels |
Little Kendra |
2018-02-18 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Explore the SQL query table hint READPAST |
Rajendra Gupta |
2020-11-14 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How Bad Statistics Cause Bad SQL Server Query Performance |
Brent Ozar |
2020-11-14 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| How Scalar User-Defined Functions Slow Down Queries |
Brent Ozar |
2020-11-14 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Could verifying your backups be costing you money? |
Matt Robertshaw |
2020-01-01 |
[AZ][B] |
| Extended Events: System_health And A Long Running Query |
Grant Fritchey |
2020-05-09 |
[XE] |
| Altering an indexed view in SQL Server drops all indexes |
Little Kendra |
2020-03-02 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Deprecated and discontinued features in SQL Server |
Randolph West |
2020-03-04 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Query Store, Plan Forcing, And Drop/create |
Grant Fritchey |
2020-03-02 |
[QS] |
| Uncommon SQL in SQL Server |
Shane O'Neill |
2020-11-20 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Configure SQL Server Replication between AWS RDS SQL Server and On-premises SQL Server |
Rajendra Gupta |
2020-11-12 |
[AMZ] |
| Import data into Azure SQL database from AWS Redshift |
Rahul Mehta |
2020-11-10 |
[AMZ][AZ] |
| When You’re Troubleshooting Blocking, Look at Query #2, Too. |
Brent Ozar |
2020-11-19 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Finding the One Query to Tune in a Multi-Query Batch |
Brent Ozar |
2020-11-23 |
[DBA][DEV] |
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Denis Lukichev |
2020-11-22 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Viva la Famiglia! Stored procedure for created recursive family tree |
Brad Schulz |
2020-10-01 |
[DEV] |
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Brent Ozar |
2020-11-25 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Discovering Three or Four Part Names in SQL Server Database Code |
Louis Davidson |
2019-03-08 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Troubleshooting RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_QUERY_COMPILE Helper Queries |
Eric Darling |
2020-11-24 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| When Do I Need to Use DESC in Indexes? |
Brent Ozar |
2020-11-30 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Export Power BI Desktop data to SQL Server |
Rui Romano |
2016-04-21 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Exploring errors to reveal unauthorized information |
Fabiano Amorim |
2020-10-19 |
[SEC] |
| How to run your CTE just once, and re-use the output |
Daniel Hutmacher |
2020-12-01 |
[DBA][DEV] |
| Documenting SSIS Packages using Sequence Diagrams |
Aveek Das |
2020-11-25 |
[SSIS] |