Some feedback from the training What did you like most about the training? -Quite impressed by the way Jayant taught Performance tuning -In depth explanation of all […]
Storing the MDF and LDF files of SQL Server on Azure Storage Part 2
In this second part on the series of how to add mdf and ldf files to Azure Storage we need to create a credential in the database in […]
Storing the MDF and LDF files of SQL Server on Azure Storage Part 1
One of the new features of SQL Server 2014 that have been introduced allow users to create mdf and ldf files in the Azure BLOB Storage containers and […]
Exception Message: The client could not finish the operation within specified timeout. Killing the lease on a file in Azure BLOB
Exception Message: The client could not finish the operation within specified timeout. When backing up a database to the cloud if the network connectivity is slow or if […]
Installing SQL 2014
Installing SQL 2014, if you have ever installed SQL you shouldn’t find anything surprising here.
Part 2 Buffer pool extension SQL 2014
In this second part (read the first part here) of the series we continue testing the limits of our RAM and try to understand SQLs behaviour when it […]
Part 1 Buffer pool extension SQL 2014
In this series I am going to cover the feature Buffer pool extension in MS SQL Server. Now before we can discuss this feature it might be a […]
Indexes – F1 Crash Course
There are a million articles, blogs post etc. about indexes out there, I am guilty too of contributing to it. Here is my attempt at correcting the vast […]
Single Partition online rebuild in SQL 2014
If you have a large database then you probably have table partitioning implemented. While I have already blogged a lot about partitioning one feature that is really useful […]
Conditional Flow using SSIS Expression task
One common usage for the expression task in SSIS is to implement conditional flow of the constraints. In the below screenshot you can see that we implement an […]