I am sure the title must have piqued the interest of most DBAs since this is what we do every day. It’s also one of the most common […]
administration / Database / MSSQL / TSQL
SQL 2016 – In-Memory OLTP enhancements
A bit late in the day but I am still posting the changes to In-memory OLTP that are proposed for SQL 2016. Why? In-memory OLTP in SQL 2014 […]
SQL 2016 – Possible bug in temporal tables
I am not sure if this has been raised before, it seems like a very common scenario that I am sure most people will encounter but I wasn’t […]
administration / MSSQL / TSQL
SQL 2016 – Temporal Tables the way we are most likely to end up using it
In this post I am quickly going show how to convert the existing tables into temporal tables. This is a common requirement I expect we will all encounter […]
SQL 2016 – TempDB Optimizations are enabled by default Woot!!
Last year I had spent a decent amount of time writing about tempdb. With SQL 2016 a lot of those point are validated and enabled by default going […]
SQL 2016 – sys.dm_exec_query_stats upgraded version
This is one the most frequently used DMVs for DBA when troubleshooting performance issues and MS has been adding more columns to the DMV with every release. In […]
Sample Script for Partitioning
First we create the database Then we create the file and partition schema and function Then we bind the table with the Schema
SQL 2016 – Updatable Non Clustered Column store indexes
This might some as a big relief for those who use ODS for Reporting. Previously we have the following limitations with the below types of indexes Clustered Index […]
SQL 2016 – DATEDIFF_BIG
I don’t know about most guys out there but I personally feel this was a great addition to SQL 2016. I use the datetime2 function quite a bit […]
SQL 2016 – Compress and Decompress – with a catch! Compress doesn’t always save space
While working at Thomson Reuters I was part of the Search and navigation team and we had a number of reports created around the data being analyzed from […]