SQL Server 2016 is loaded with tons of new enhancements that I can’t get enough of it. I have been playing around with the bits since multiple CTP’s and it is getting difficult to catch up on all the releases coming so fast and the number of enhancements from performance and scalability point of view have been too many to track. Let us see in this blog post Enhancements with TempDB in SQL Server 2016.
SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL Browser
My laptop is exposed to the internet and I have a passion to learn new software. Due to this, sometimes, I download some random software (unknowingly malware) on my machine and end up in infecting my laptop with a virus. These are never intentional. I think I have written earlier…
Read MoreGeometry Datatype – Line String Behavior Enhancements
When I did the session at SQLPass about the 42 tips, I had included an interesting behavior I got when working with Geometry data types. When I was doing a session at a large SI location, one of the application developers walked up to me to say they were getting…
Read MoreInterview Question of the Week #051 – Actual Execution Plan vs. Estimated Execution Plan
In one of the recent interview, I met quite a few interesting candidates. It is common for employees ask many questions during an interview, but there are times when candidates also ask questions back to the interviewee. I was asked following question recently.
Question: Do you use Actual Execution plan or Estimated Execution plan?
SQL SERVER – Script: Remove Spaces in Column Name in All Tables
Long time ago I have written blog to rename column name.
SQL SERVER – How to Rename a Column Name or Table Name
One of the reader asked me if I can provide a script to remove space from all column names for all tables in a database? My first reaction was – “Are you sure you want to do that? There are chances that after changing the name of the column, the application code might break. If the table has been referred in stored procedure or functions or other objects”
SQL SERVER – Getting to understand SQL Server Activity Monitor in SSMS
This site is flooded with blog posts around SQL Server Management Studio’s Activity Monitor capability. In fact, we have written few special case scenarios on how to use the same. In this blog post, I might not want to rehash the same, but take a stance on how I explained…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – How To Improve Performance by Offloading Backups to a Secondary Replica – Notes from the Field #108
[Notes from Pinal]: If we get one server, we want two servers, and if we get two servers, we want four servers. If we know we are going to get only two servers, we try our best to get maximum out of our available server. Maximum utilization of resources is always our primary goal. In this blog post we are going to talk about almost the same story where we try to get maximum out of our servers. Let us assume that we have two servers, how do we get maximum performance from them. Well, our generic answer would be that we will keep the most important task on our primary server and move all the not so important task on secondary server. This is common sense and essential too. This is when I reached out to Eduardo and asked him what can we do to make our primary server faster by offloading backups to secondary replica.
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