Memory dumps are a copy of what lies in the RAM during a particular scenario such as a crash or even a manual Dump. Memory dumps are useful […]
sys.dm_os_windows_info
A minor DMV with SQL Server this particular one doesn’t really provide much information about the OS other than the version and service pack level. It is nowhere […]
sys.Dm_db_database_page_allocations()
This new DMV is basically a modified version of the DBCC IND command that is used to display the page allocations for a specific database object like a […]
At long last Pagination
MS SQL Server 2012 introduced a very nice feature for developers with the PAGINATION OFFSET Syntax. It has always been a challenge to work with pagination in MS […]
CHOOSE, Is MS really giving a choice?
In this blog we are going to talk about a little known T-SQL Command called CHOOSE. As its name suggests it allows some kind of selection to be […]
Video on MS SQL Server Partitioning
As promised here is a short video to start of the series on SQL Server partitioning. The video covers the difference between simply placing files in Filegroups with […]
MS SQL Performance tuning: – Partitioning explained
Today I am going to do a quick one hour session explaining partitioning. We will cover the difference between partitioning and placing tables in Filegroups, How to implement […]
In Memory OLTP – New feature in SQL 2014
We saw this coming with the demand for highly transaction database becoming more frequent clubbed with the need to store data in very large sets. Naturally one precludes […]