Indexes in SQL Server 2005/2008 – Part 2 – Internals
OK, I first posted on some of the limitations to indexes in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 in part one here. Now, I want to
OK, I first posted on some of the limitations to indexes in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 in part one here. Now, I want to
Memorial Day weekend we were in Chicago to celebrate my Father’s life. We did a “Celebration of Life” memorial and we had a few drinks
OK, we were in Iceland and then Florida for our Accidental DBA workshops and both went really well. People agree that there are quite a
In my blog post on my new sp_helpindex proc (sp_helpindex2), I mentioned that the indexes in my sample were not necessarily a recommended set of
IMPORTANT NOTE: Always check the sp_helpindex rewrites category for the USE THIS post! OK – so this has been frustrating me for many months… when
OK, I still have a way to go in learning about data compression in SQL Server 2008 but one thing that I do know is
OK, so thought I’d do a follow up to the post I did a couple of days ago titled: The perils of case-insensitive data (and our
OK, so after SQL Connections in Las Vegas, Paul and I head off to Barcelona for the second week of TechEd’s two
OK, it’s about that time again – the Fall conference season – is here! Building on our co-presented Database Maintenance workshop at SQL
OK, let me start by saying that I absolutely love when a feature improves in granularity options. Better granularity in locks means that contention is
OK, have you ever been working on one thing…that led you to another (and another and another) and then you seem to have lost hours?
DDL Triggers were a new feature of SQL Server 2005 and while seemingly simple, they are very powerful. DDL Triggers allow you to trap an
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