Category Archives: Performance
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RBAR vs Batch
10August 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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Comparing the contents of two tables
16May 12, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve been working on tuning a query for the last week and I’ve had to make several changes to the …
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The risks of Delayed Durability
3April 12, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again and this month we are hosted by Jens Vestergaard (b/t) who want’s us to talk about …
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TOP 1 killed my performance; Rob Farley helped me resurrect it.
15March 21, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
tl;dr; There is no short version of this. It’s LONG. It’s interesting but you might want to skip it if …
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‘Twas 4:45 Friday
Leave a commentDecember 23, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
I couldn’t think of anything really fun to post for Christmas Eve-Eve and I’ve been busy buying and wrapping presents …
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Yet one more quick and easy performance tuning setting
1June 1, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
I blogged in the past about two simple commands that can be a big help in performance tuning SET STATISTICS …
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Test first; Mileage may vary;
2May 14, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
I went to a SQL Saturday recently and saw a number of great sessions. If you haven’t been to a …
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‘Twas 4:45 Friday
3December 16, 2014 by Kenneth Fisher
‘Twas 4:45 Friday, and all through the office not a creature was stirring, not even the bosses. The code was …
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