The introduction of DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATIONS in SQL Server 2016 enabled different configuration settings at the individual database level. However, there is no logging of
While I was doing some research for a client on how to accomplish a specific task, I happened across a BOL topic that caught my
This post is a follow up to my previous post on the performance impacts of the AT TIME ZONE implementation in SQL Server based on
This only demonstrates that the performance impact is the result of AT TIME ZONE. To see how to work across date ranges read my follow
Back in 2012, I wrote a post titled Looking at External Disk Performance using USB 3.0 and eSATA with SSD, where I tested a number
It’s not often that I have the need or opportunity to work with FullText Indexes, and it’s also not often that I come across a
Recently I have been having quite a few discussions around security of data inside of SQL Server and how to prevent the massive data breaches
While working on a video recording for Paul this week I ran into an interesting problem with one of my Windows Server 2016 clusters. While
Lately, I have been doing a lot of work troubleshooting certain behaviors in SQL Server for workloads that are, to put it simply, designed horribly.
Microsoft has made a lot of changes to their servicing model for SQL Server over the years, specifically moving more towards Cumulative Updates and away
Last week a new whitepaper titled SQL Server Performance Tuning Using Wait Statistics: A Beginners Guide was made available through SimpleTalk. This paper is a
My most recent article on SQLPerformance.com was published today, and begins a series on Service Broker use cases. While Service Broker doesn’t have the sexy
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