The other day while working on a topic of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check recently asked if I know any trick for capturing insert timestamp.
How to Add Constraint With No Validation? – Interview Question of the Week #299
Question: How to Add Constraint With No Validation?
Answer: I got this question from one of my clients of who is an Oracle user.
SQL SERVER – Identity and Constraint Confusion
What is going on with their server as I had no access to their data or schema. Let us learn about how identity and constraint confusion created problems.
Nonclustered Primary Key – SQL in Sixty Seconds #119
I will describe in detail a bit later on during this blog post. Today we are going to learn that it is possible to have a nonclustered primary key.
SQL SERVER – Resolving Last Page Insert PAGELATCH_EX Contention Changing Primary Key to Non-Clustered
You can change your clustered primary key to Non-clustered Primary Key and can get the benefit of performance by reducing Pagelatch_EX.
SQL SERVER – Resolving Last Page Insert PAGELATCH_EX Contention with OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY
I have personally implemented the solution suggested of resolving contention about creating an index with OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY at my client’s place.
SQL SERVER – Last Page Insert PAGELATCH_EX Contention Due to Identity Column
Today’s goal is to understand what is the Last Page Insert PAGELATCH_EX Contention Due to Primary Key. Let us start understanding it together.