Earlier, I had written two articles related to Shrinking Database. I wrote about why Shrinking Database is not good.
SQL SERVER – 4 Tips for ETL Software IDE Developers
In a previous blog, I introduced the notion of Semantic Types. To an end-user, a seamlessly integrated semantic typing engine significantly increases the ease of use of an ETL IDE (integrated development environment, or developer studio). This led me to think about other ease-of-use issues I have encountered while building ETL…
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SQL SERVER – A Funny Cartoon on Index
Performance Tuning has been my favorite subject and I have done it for many years now. Today I will list one of the most common conversations about Index I have heard in my life. Let us see a funny cartoon on the Index and Performance Tuning.
SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper Download – Using Star Join and Few-Outer-Row Optimizations to Improve Data Warehousing Queries
Size of the database is growing every day. Many organizations now a days have more than TB of the Data in their system. Performance is always part of the issue. Microsoft is really paying attention to the same and also focusing on improving performance for Data Warehousing. Microsoft has recently…
Read MoreSQLAuthority News – Best Practices for Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008 R2
An integral part of any BI system is the data warehouse—a central repository of data that is regularly refreshed from the source systems. The new data is transferred at regular intervals  by extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes. This whitepaper talks about what are best practices for Data Warehousing. This…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Quick Look at SQL Server Configuration for Performance Indications
Earlier I wrote SQL SERVER – Beginning SQL Server: One Step at a Time – SQL Server Magazine. That was the first article on the series of my real world experience of Performance Tuning experience. I have written second part the same series over here. Read second part over here: Quick…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – A Quick Note on DB_ID() and DB_NAME() – Get Current Database ID – Get Current Database Name
Quite often a simple things makes experienced DBA to look for simple thing. Here are few things which I used to get confused couple of years ago. Now I know it well and have no issue but recently I see one of the DBA getting confused when looking at the…
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