Having a scattered Microsoft SQL Server database platform is cumbersome to maintain, as you continue to accumulate waste capacity to your database servers. Therefore, you should consider consolidating your platform to make it more manageable. Let us learn about Why is SQL Server Consolidation Better Than Having a Scattered Environment?
SQL SERVER – How to Invoke SSMS Help From Command Prompt?
This particular question I just received in my recent SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop. It was a very interesting question and hence I am going to blog about it. The question which I received was – How to Invoke SSMS Help From Command Prompt?
SQL SERVER – Windows Authentication or System Admin Account (SA)
I like to say that I am SQL Server Performance Tuning expert but often during the conversation, I end up discussing security as well. Recently I was asked about my preference for Windows Authentication or System Admin Account (SA) during one of the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check.
How to Find Table Cardinality from the Execution Plan? – Interview Question of the Week #213
Question: How to Find Table Cardinality from the Execution Plan?
PostgreSQL – Storing Unicode Characters is Easy
One of the interesting features of PostgreSQL database is the ability to handle Unicode characters. In SQL Server, to store non-English characters, we need to use NVARCHAR or NCAHR data type. In PostgreSQL, the varchar data type itself will store both English and non-English characters.
SQL SERVER – Update Table Statistics in Parallel with FULLSCAN
SQL Server Performance Tuning is a much simpler job if you know exactly where to look for and how to tune the configurations. Here is the real world scenario which I encountered during the recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. During the performance tuning exercise, we realized that for one of the table we needed to update the statistics with the full scan as the table was a very critical table for their business. However, every time whenever we were running the update statistics job, the query was running very slow and almost never finish.
Frequently Asked Questions for SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop for EVERYONE
Earlier this week I announced my very first online training class open for (US, EU, Asia, and Everywhere) over here: SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop for EVERYONE – April 23, 2019, and so far I have received an amazing response. We have sold quite a few seats in the very first few minutes of announcing the class.