I love Full text search in MS SQL Server. Although I haven’t seen it being used a lot in client locations, I do use it a lot within […]
Video on Performance tuning memory allocation and spill issues
I was inspired by a recent article I read on parameter sniffing to add my own contribution to the topic, I explain how tempdb spools occur due to […]
Suspect MSDB and no Backups
Yesterday I got a call from a client about MSDB being suspect after a drive failure. Unfortunately the client didn’t have any backups. Now the correct and best […]
SQL 2016 – Stretch database in detail –CTP 2.3 screenshots with BOL corrected now
If you have been following the buzz around MS SQL 2016 you would surely have heard of Stretch database. The concept is interesting and new and probably something […]
administration / MSSQL / TSQL
Lock, Latches, Waits and Deadlocks explained weirdly (like never before)!!!
When conducting MS SQL Server Trainings I often resort to weird examples to explain how certain things work. Over the years I have some favorites that I use […]
Security: Capturing additional login information Trace vs Audit
Recently on a popular SQL Server forum as well as commonly during my trainings people ask about how to get additional security information about logins. Most often the […]
You can now create nonclustered indexes on the Clustered Columnstore index
This post is to correct a mistake I made in my previous post on Updateable Non Clustered Columnstore index in SQL 2016; in that post I mentioned that […]
SQL 2016- Live Query Stats
I am a bit confused about this feature so I thought I would post about it to get feedback on its usage in SQL 2016. With SQL 2016 […]
Drawing a graph in SQL Server Management Studio
Had some spare time today so I used it to finally get around to a small project I had in mind. The intention is just to do it […]
SQL 2016- Activity monitor – Active Expensive Queries
Hurray L1 DBAs you now have an easier way to query active expensive queries. A new tab is added in activity monitor to show DBAs currently active queries. […]