This year was the first time I submitted to speak at the PASS Summit. Like many first time candidates, I was not selected to speak this year. The experience was valuable, however. I put more effort into writing this abstract than…
In the last post of this blog series, I discussed what a heap is and how it impacts query performance. In this post, I will describe clustered indexes and how they differ from a heap. They are indexes but also…
The other day I came across the need to compare two different paths for equality. The most annoying part of this task is when the paths are directories and you need to worry about the trailing slash. PowerShell provides a…
SQL Server 2016’s Query Store feature is, without a doubt, one of the most exciting new features for this version. The Query Store will keep track of current and past query execution plans which grants you deeper insights into the performance…
In the last post of this blog series, I discussed what a B-Tree index was and briefly explained its history. Before we dive into the indexes which SQL Server uses, it is important to set the foundation of data structures. The…
Today is the 77th T-SQL2SDAY! If you’re not familiar, T-SQL Tuesday is a blogging party hosted by a different person each month. It’s a creation of Adam Machanic (b|l|t), and it’s been going on for ages now! Basically the host…
Some people advocate we should count by twelve rather than ten. This is because you can easily count the twelve segments of your fingers by using your thumb as a pointer. With that method, you can count the number of…
Too often we end up in a conflict while trying to explain how a minimally impacting function has no true business impact. If you are too detailed, no one wants to listen to you and you are wasting their time. If…
tl;dr No release date was announced at Data Driven but it was announced on SQL Server Blog. SQL Server 2016 will be released for general availability on June 1st, 2016! Take a look at the feature breakdown by edition here….
Last time, I discussed how to limit data duplication between data centers as a cost-effective option with an Availability Group. In this post I will take cost reduction one step further by short-changing the disaster recovery site. Disaster recovery on the…