Category Archives: Performance
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Increasing and decreasing the performance level of your Azure SQL Database
Leave a commentMarch 29, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
One of the big benefits of Azure, and in fact any of the cloud offerings I’ve seen, is the ability …
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Queries with optional parameters
20February 27, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
These are those queries where you are pulling for, let’s say, a first name, a last name, a state, and/or …
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Lead Blocker
16January 18, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Blocking is just part of life I’m afraid. Because we have locks (and yes we have to have them, and …
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Reload a table quickly.
6November 21, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
Sometimes loading new data or even changes into a table just isn’t going to work. You need a complete reload. …
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SQLSkills waits and latches library
2November 16, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
SQLSkills is an amazing resource for the SQL Server community. Between their blogs, white papers, and the SQLSkills Insider emails …
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New indexes, hypothetically
1November 2, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
I saw something like this the other day. My first thought was “Hu, never seen that before.” My second thought …
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Natural vs Artificial Primary Keys
6August 29, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
There has been a long standing debate over the use of a natural primary key vs an artificial one. I …
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RBAR vs Batch
9August 17, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
Many years ago Jeff Moden (of SQL Server Central fame) came up with the concept of RBAR. Row-By-Agonizing-Row. At it’s …
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Is the network your last performance bottleneck?
6July 18, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
Let’s say your company relies on the cloud for its servers (or maybe not, on premise networks have more options …
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Altering a column in a large table: A case study
20July 14, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
Fair warning, this is a discussion piece. I had a task, I went through several possibilities and I’m going to …
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