Well, it's been a crazy few weeks! Paul and I have been booked solid with client engagements, Immersion Events, conferences and other things (like chapter editing for the upcoming SQL Server Deep Dives Volume 2) and so I've been a bit behind with blogging. I have a ToDo list of items to blog about but […]
Kimberly L. Tripp
Improving my SQL skills through your questions!
Trusting the tools!
Posted on: June 9, 2011 4:32 am
More considerations for the clustering key – the clustered index debate continues!
Posted on: November 28, 2010 6:52 pm
OK, I've talked about the clustering key many times. Here, I thought I'd bring together one final series of details (and links) to help you really understand why I'm so adamant about DESIGNING a clustering key and not just letting SQL Server pick it for you (for example when it defaults to making the primary […]
Disk space is cheap…
Posted on: November 11, 2010 10:24 am
. 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 […]
(OLD): A new and improved sp_helpindex (jokingly sp_helpindex8)
Posted on: May 18, 2010 8:33 pm
NOTE: I’ve released other versions of sp_helpindex since this post. Check out the category: sp_helpindex rewrites for all of the options! OK, I first blogged about re-writing sp_helpindex here as sp_helpindex2 (April 2008). Shortly thereafter (Aug 2008), a reader found a bug and when I went digging, so did I (a couple of others). I did […]
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 […]
