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SQL SERVER – Discussion on understanding NUMA

December 12, 2015

At the SQLPass conference I have had the opportunity to meet a number of you and you folks have inspired me to learn and share after every trip to this conference. This year, I was fortunate to do a number of sessions this year too. Just the preparation for these…

SQL SERVER – Connecting to Azure SQL DB

December 11, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Azure

Learning new methods of working with SQL Server can always be challenging. I found the new learning coming my way while connecting to Azure SQL DB. I was confronted with an error and I was not sure where to start. So this blog is like a travel log of my…

SQL SERVER – InMemory Tables on SQL Azure DB

December 9, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

In-Memory OLTP, SQL Azure, SQL Scripts

There have been tons of enhancements in the InMemory space with SQL Server 2016. I am due to write about them in this blog. Having said that, one of my DBA friend asked me based on the Pluralsight course on SQL Server 2014 Administration – Does SQL Azure support InMemory…

Interview Question of the Week #048 – How to Move TempDB to Another Drive?

December 6, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL TempDB

In a recent interview when the interviewer asked interview that TempDB can be moved to a different drive, the candidate was extremely surprised. For the benefits of the interviewee who did not know the answer, I have written this blog post. Question: How to move TempDB to another drive? Answer:…

SQL SERVER – Resource Governor and Database Mapping

December 5, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Resource Governor

Recently in my trip to US for SQLPass, I had a unique opportunity to meet a number of attendees for my session. The session was well received and I got some great feedbacks. I loved the recent trip and it was a great experience for me to learn and prepare…

SQL SERVER – 2016 – Opening JSON with OPENJSON()

December 4, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

JSON

The first blog I wrote about JSON with SQL Server 2016 was to get a valid JSON output from relational tables. You can read that again from: SQL SERVER – Getting started and creating JSON using SQL Server 2016. In this blog, we will try to get to the next…

SQL SERVER – XEvents to Find Cardinality Estimation Issues

December 2, 2015

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Extended Events

Ever since SQL Server 2014 brought the new Cardinality estimates, there have been a number of blogs to talk about them. Even here, I wrote a quite a few blogs about this very subject. SQL SERVER – How to Force New Cardinality Estimation or Old Cardinality Estimation SQL SERVER –…