When is the Publication Access List required?
Update: ** Make sure to check out the comments at the end of this post. There are some interesting differences in behavior between transactional replication
Update: ** Make sure to check out the comments at the end of this post. There are some interesting differences in behavior between transactional replication
I received a question today about the impact of data compression on the transaction log. While most of the time we talk about data compression
My first SQLSaturday (104) experience was a great one. I got a chance to meet many new people (speakers, organizers and attendees), reunite with several
Next month I’ll be attending and speaking at the Colorado Springs #SQLSat104. I’m looking forward to this event for a number of reasons: 1. It’s
The SQL Server 2012 contained database feature has an interesting behavior when it comes to collation considerations between the SQL Server instance default collation and
This particular issue I’m about to describe should be pretty rare, but I’m posting this here in the event that someone else encounters it and
I was thinking back to a conversation I had some time ago regarding cases when sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats does not get updated after an index is used
While it’s good to keep an eye on your SQL Server instances – it’s a balancing act. On one side you want to be sure
When I'm troubleshooting concurrency issues – be it deadlocking or long duration blocks, I’m immediately curious about the isolation level being used. While I may be told
So picture the following scenario on a SQL Server 2008 R2 instance (an amalgam of various DBA situations you've no doubt seen before)… You get
This blog post applies to SQL Server 2012 CTP3 (11.0.1440). SQL Server 2012 introduces the “indirect checkpoints” feature. At a high level, it allows you to
Today there isn’t a fine-tuned way to clear the accumulated statistics from the “missing index” set of DMVs. Certainly restarting SQL Server will do this,
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