Let us discuss about What the Business Says Is Not What the Business Wants. Steve raised a very interesting question.
SQL SERVER – What is Page Life Expectancy (PLE) Counter
During performance tuning consultationconsultation, there are plenty of counters and values, I often come across. Today we will quickly talk about Page Life Expectancy counter, which is commonly known as PLE as well. You can find the value of the PLE by running the following query. SELECT [object_name], [counter_name], [cntr_value]…
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SQL SERVER – Activity Monitor and Performance Issue
We had a wonderful SQLAuthority News – Community Tech Days – December 11, 2010 event yesterday. During this event SQL Expert Jacob shared a very interesting story related to activity monitor.
SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 R2 System Views Map
SQL Server 2008 R2 System Views Map is released. I am very proud that my organization (Solid Quality Mentors) is part of making this possible. This map shows the key system views included in SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, and the relationships between them. SQL Server 2008 R2 System…
Read MoreSQL SEVER – Finding Memory Pressure – External and Internal
The following query will provide details of external and internal memory pressure. It will return the data how much portion in the existing memory is assigned to what kind of memory type.
SQLAuthority News – Community Tech Days – SharePoint Server
Community Tech Days are very close on December 11. I will be speaking in the following session. Best Database Practice for SharePoint Server.
SQL SERVER – Installing AdventureWorks for SQL Server
I just began with SQL Server 2012. The very first thing, I realized that there is no AdventureWorks Sample Database available for Denali. I quickly searched online and reached to Microsoft documentation where it provides information on the how to install (restore) AdventureWorks for SQL Server .
SQLAuthority News – A Successful Performance Tuning Seminar at Pune – Dec 4-5, 2010
This is report to my third of very successful seminar event on SQL Server Performance Tuning. SQL Server Performance Tuning Seminar in Colombo was oversubscribed with total of 35 attendees. You can read the details over hereSQLAuthority News – SQL Server Performance Optimizations Seminar – Grand Success – Colombo, Sri…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Solution – Challenge – Puzzle – Usage of FAST Hint
Earlier I had posted quick puzzle and I had received wonderful response to the same from Brad Schulz. Today we will go over the solution. The puzzle was posted here: SQL SERVER – Challenge – Puzzle – Usage of FAST Hint The question was in what condition the hint FAST…
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SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Error While Converting Money to Decimal
Earlier I had posted quick puzzle about Converting Money and I had received a wonderful response to the same. Let us go over the solution.
The puzzle was posted here: SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Challenge – Error While Converting Money to Decimal