Ever had your SHRINK operation in SQL Server get “stuck” and didn’t know why, or how to solve it? It’s more common than you think. Check out this post for more info, tricks and tips.
Read More »Troubleshooting Long-Running SHRINK Operations
Linked Servers are an easy way to allow direct access between different SQL Servers. But, by using this feature, you may have created a wide-open backdoor into your servers! Read on for more details…
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, Kevin Chant asked us to dream up our fantasy SQL Server feature. I love this topic and so I had to join in on this as a late (and first-time) contributor.
My ask from Microsoft for SQL Server is something that…. Well… It should be simple. It should’ve been implemented YEARS ago. I’m thinking somewhere around the year 2005.
Read More »T-SQL Tuesday #118 – I wish SQL Server had better Table Partitioning
Today I’ll talk about the main physical JOIN operator types in SQL Server (Nested Loops, Hash and Merge Joins), their differences, best practices, and complexity (which determines when the SQL Server optimizer would use them in execution plans).
Read More »The LOOP, HASH and MERGE Join Types
Unlike foreign keys, primary keys and unique indexes cannot be “untrusted”. There’s no “NOCHECK” option for unique constraints. The closest… Read More »The "IGNORE_DUP_KEY" option in Primary Keys and Unique Indexes
One fateful night, cold and dreary, I’ve stumbled upon how collations can significantly affect performance in SQL Server… Yes, really!
While normalizing a table in their database, one of my clients had weird and inconsistent performance problems and couldn’t find a solution for it for quite a while.
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is an excellent and easy-to-use platform for creating, viewing, managing, and subscribing to reports of… Read More »Using Reporting Services as your Software Frontend