A very common question I often receive during Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check is what is the best value for Maximum Worker Threads.
SQL SERVER – Display Dates in Different cultures FORMAT
Today we are going to learn a very simple and interesting concept used very little. It is about how to Display Dates in Different cultures FORMAT.
Rowstore to Columnstore: Replace the Clustered Index
Rowstore to columnstore is a change of the clustered index, and one command works in only one case. This post builds two tables of 600,000 rows, shows the error from DROP_EXISTING on a primary key, and converts each table the working way. It compares the sizes before and after.
Copy Database – SQL in Sixty Seconds #169
At that time I use this technique of copy database while keeping the database online. This method is very simple and efficient.
Read-Ahead Reads in STATISTICS IO: What They Tell You
Interpret read-ahead reads in STATISTICS IO, compare isolated cold scans and seeks, and separate prefetch from storage-wait evidence.
9 SQL SERVER Performance Tuning Tips – SQL in Sixty Seconds #168
This episode of SQL in Sixty seconds is very special as it contains 9 SQL SERVER Performance Tuning Tips. The length of the video is also longer.
EDIT_DISTANCE and JARO_WINKLER: Fuzzy String Matching in SQL Server 2025
EDIT_DISTANCE counts the single-character changes between two strings, and the JARO_WINKLER functions score how alike they look. This post tests the four preview functions on SQL Server 2025, shows the Windows collation error and its fix, and finds near-duplicate customer names.