Investigating the proportional fill algorithm
This is something that came up recently on the Microsoft Certified Master DL, and is something I discuss in our IEPTO1 class because of the
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This is something that came up recently on the Microsoft Certified Master DL, and is something I discuss in our IEPTO1 class because of the
Back in February I ran a bunch of performance tests of DBCC CHECKDB on SSDs, to evaluate the effects of degree-of-parallelism (DOP) and various options
If I told you about an undocumented mod you could make to your car's brakes to make them more efficient, would you try it? What
After finishing the salary survey I was kicking around ideas for the next one and thought about one of the sessions I presented at SQL
(Look in the Misconceptions blog category for the rest of the month’s posts and check out the 60-page PDF with all the myths and misconceptions
I've blogged about ghost records and the ghost cleanup task a couple of time before (the only place it is really explained AFAIK), but one
[Edit 2016: This trace flag is required in all version of SQL Server up to and including SQL Server 2014. Every instance of SQL Server
There’s a well known problem that every time a backup operation succeeds a message is written into the error log and Windows event log. If
This has come up several times over the last few days, and is something that Kimberly and I discuss (and deplore) when we lecture –
As I mentioned in a previous post, one of the new features for database mirroring in SQL Server 2008 is log stream compression. There’s a
SQL Server supports lock escalation – when the server decides to move from a large number of row or page locks on an object to a
Time for the first post in the Inside the Storage Engine series. I’m going to focus on SQL Server 2005 in this series and I’ll
One of the hottest features in SQL Server 2005 is database mirroring, and it’s helped many companies implement successful and relatively inexpensive high-availability strategies. In
One of the comments I received recently is below: Hi Paul, If the corruption happens to be related to I/O Erros and there is nothing
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