SQL Server Internal Query Cardinality Estimator Information
By: Eli Leiba || Related Tips:More >Performance Tuning Problem The requirement is to get a detailed SQL Server internal query cardinality estimator component plan information report for a given...
View ArticleEstimating Columnstore Index Size
Niko Neugebauer is somewhat impressed with an update to sp_estimate_data_compression_savings : The final results were pretty much amazing 2.1 GB , making the estimation of the...
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New Class Week: Developer’s Guide to SQL Server Performance Tuning
You’re stuck with a database server that’s not going fast enough. You have a hunch that the biggest bottleneck is inside the database server somewhere, but where? In this one-day class, you’ll learn...
View ArticleAn Open Thank You to the Microsoft SQL Server Team
Thank you, Microsoft SQL Server Development team. I really am happy with your work. I was going through emails and noticed the someone had posted a surprise in the SQL Server 2019 CTP. The post was...
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Microsoft Ignite postmortem: The underlying hybrid convergence
As my colleagueMary Jo Foley noted during a live interview at Microsoft Ignite , IoT and intelligent edge processing predominated Satya Nadella's opening words at Microsoft's enterprise event held...
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Celebrating 25 Years of SQL Server
sqlfmt: An Opinionated Online SQL Formatter ― Provide sqlfmt with some SQL, specify a target line width, and get back some better formatted SQL that takes SQL’s syntax into account. Ideal for blog...
View ArticleWhat’s New With Machine Learning Services
So, when I read What’s new in SQL Server 2019 , I came across a lot of interesting “stuff”, but one thing that stood out was Java language programmability extensions . In essence, it allows us to...
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When You Need to Tune A View, Don’t Just Get Its Plan
Say your database has a view, and everybody’s queries use it. Let’s take the Stack Overflow database and create this view: CREATE OR ALTER VIEW dbo.vwQuestionsAndAnswers AS SELECT q.Title, q.Id AS...
View ArticleWhy Do I Need An SSAS Cube?
A viewer of my Pluralsight courses wrote to me asking what I thought was an excellent question. “What is the advantage of having an SSAS Cube?” or at it’s root, why do we need cubes at all? What do...
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SQL Server 2016 Download Setup files In Progress
This short blog shows you one of the possibilities the SQL Server 2016 stuck at Download Setup files is In Progress. I have a Hyper-V running. The Virtual Switch Manager I configured External network...
View ArticleThe Ever Expanding Data Platform
This past week was the 2018 Ignite conference from Microsoft, where we had a number of announcements about the data platform. You can rewatch some of the sessions from the event, and I might recommend...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 39
Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth, that has to do with things that interest me: data science data in general distributed computing SQL Server transactions (both db...
View ArticleTEMPDB the most important system database in SQL Server
Introduction If you had anytime worked in SQL Server, you would be knowing about a system database TEMPDB. TEMPDB is one of the most important system databases in SQL Server. As the name denotes TEMPDB...
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Columnstore Indexes part 126 (“Extracting Columnstore Statistics to Cloned D ...
Continuation from the previous 125 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/ . I have a huge love for the DBCC CLONEDATABASE command it has been made available...
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Getting a Sample SQL Server Database
As tends to happen this isn’t the post I set out to write today. We hit an issue at work the other day that I want to write about, but to do so I need a sample database (I can’t use the data from...
View ArticleData transfer From access to the MSSQL server
Automatically insert data from Access into the Sql server Situation: We receive statistical source data on monthly basis. It comes as a CD with an Access database which contains two tables. So we have...
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Capturing SQL Server Deadlocks using Extended Events
By: Eduardo Pivaral || Related Tips:More >Monitoring Problem In large environments, where you have large OLTP databases,deadlocks are a common issue. It is imperative to identify and resolve the...
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Add SQL Server Agent Management to SQL Operations Studio
By: Rajendra Gupta || Related Tips:More > SQL Operations Studio Problem SQL Operations Studio is a new tool that runs on windows, macOS, and linux, and aims to simplify management for SQL Server on...
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SQL Server 2019 is Here
On Monday, Sep 24, 2018, at the Ignite 2018 conference, Microsoft announced the first public preview of SQL Server 2019 (community technical preview (CTP) release of SQL Server 2.0).This new release of...
View ArticleThoughts On UTF-8 Encoding In SQL Server 2019
Solomon Rutzky digs into UTF-8 support in SQL Server 2019 and has found a few bugs : Let’s start with what we are told about this new feature. According to the documentation, the new UTF-8 Collations:...
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