. THAT'S NOT THE POINT!!! . The simple point is that bad (or sloppy/lazy) design cannot be tuned. If you think that data type choice, nullability, keys – don't really matter – you won't scale. It is possible that you may completely fail because of this. Have you ever heard (or possibly said?), let's just [...]
Kimberly L. Tripp
Improving my SQL skills through your questions!
Disk space is cheap…
Posted on: November 11, 2010 10:24 am
The MOSS Show Sharepoint Podcast – Episode 21 is live!
Posted on: April 29, 2010 3:50 am
Paul and I chatted with Hilton Giesenow about SQL Server, Sharepoint and Involuntary DBAs. Paul blogged a bit more details about it in the post titled: Paul and Kimberly interview from MVP Summit. And, you can get the actual interview here: Episode 21 – Diving Into SQL Server With Paul Randal & Kim Tripp Enjoy! kt
Database Maintenance Best Practices Part III – Transaction Log Maintenance
Posted on: March 14, 2009 2:23 pm
This is a tough topic. It's a big topic and more than any other – I think there are a lot of misunderstandings about what the log is for, why it's so critical and ESPECIALLY when/why it gets extrememly large. Simply put, it gets large when it's not managed correctly. OK, there are times when [...]
Database Maintenance Best Practices Part II – Setting FILLFACTOR
Posted on: March 13, 2009 9:45 am
When you decide to rebuild or reorganzie an index, you have an option to set something called FILLFACTOR. This is probably the MOST IMPORTANT thing to understand about index maintenance and reducing fragmentation (especially in databases that are prone to it). Unfortunately, we need to dive into some internals to really understand why this is [...]
Database Maintenance Best Practices Part I – clarifying ambiguous recommendations for Sharepoint
Posted on: March 12, 2009 4:01 pm
OK, it seems as though there's A LOT of confusion about what steps are required for proper database maintenance. And, it seems as though some recommendations are being given as "quick fixes" without any real recommendation for root cause analysis. I'm not saying that the generalizations are horribly wrong but in many cases they're just [...]
GUIDs as PRIMARY KEYs and/or the clustering key
Posted on: March 5, 2009 1:06 pm
(Be sure to join our community to get our monthly newsletter with exclusive content, advance notice of classes with discount codes, and other SQL Server goodies!) Expanding on the topic of "are you kidding me"… one of the MOST PREVALENT problems I see today is the dreaded "GUIDs as PKs" problem. However, just to be [...]
