Physical database layout vs. database size
A couple of weeks ago I kicked off the latest survey, on what the physical layout of your databases are and why you have them
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A couple of weeks ago I kicked off the latest survey, on what the physical layout of your databases are and why you have them
Last week I kicked off a survey about the physical layout of your databases, based on database size. I'm running it for two weeks and
This week's survey is a little more complicated. I'm interested in the physical layout of your databases. I've got four surveys, for a variety of database
Last week's survey was on how *you* manage the size of your transaction log (see here for the survey). Here are the results as of 4/10/2009
In this week's survey, I'm interested in how *you* manage the size of your transaction log. I'll report on the results around 4/10/2009. Thanks! (No
Last week’s survey was on how you should store large-value character data in SQL 2005+ (see here for the survey). Here are the result as
(And it's official – this is blog post 39 this month, making this my most prolific month yet for blogging. An arguably dubious achievement…) In
In this week's survey, I'd like to know *how* you run consistency checks, not how often. I'll report on the results next week (around 3/27/09)
Last week’s survey was on what kind of regular index maintenance you perform (see here for the survey) as a way of kicking off a
I'm about to start a new series of post about index fragmentation and removing it. For this week's survey, I'd like to know what index
Last week I kicked off the first weekly survey – on whether you validate your backups or not (see here for the survey). The results
Whenever I teach a class I’m amazed at the number of DBAs who don’t know about instant file initialization. Without wanting to redo blog posts
There's been an interesting discussion on SQLServerCentral about whether this question is valid for a DBA interview: what's the name of the executable that runs
I'm toying with the idea of having a weekly survey that'll highlight an interesting facet of database management. I've signed up with SurveyPopups.com, which is
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