SQL Authority News – Brent Ozar Unlimited Office Hours 2018/4/4 – Fun Experience

It was my pleasure and honor that I was invited to the Brent Ozar Unlimited Office Hours. During the office hours, we received quite a few interesting questions, some were very complicated and some were super fun. However, the best part of attending the office hours was the company. I was fortunate to have Brent, Richie, and Tara along with me in this office hours. Please note that the questions which we discussed during the session were asked live.

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Practical Real World Performance Tuning – Frequently Asked Questions

Earlier this month, I announced my very first online live training course Practical Real World Performance Tuning along with Brent Ozar.  As soon as the course was announced we received your overwhelming response. I am truly thankful to you to fill up the available seats very quickly. While I am writing this blog posts, we have very few limited seats are available. One the seats are filled up, we will have to close the registration. If you miss this opportunity this year, do not worry, you can always register in the future when we return again in 2019 or 2020.

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SQL SERVER – What is Forwarded Records and How to Fix Them?

During the early year of my career, one of the most popular questions I used to receive was – What is Forwarded Record? I used to find this question very valid as many people yet did not know what is the forwarded record. In most of the cases as time passes by more knowledge is spread amount SQL Server users and the number of questions reduces on a single topic. However, this is something I can’t say is true for Forwarded Records.

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SQL SERVER – Improve Index Rebuild Performance by Enabling Sort In TempDB

During recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, the customer put forward a compelling request. They wanted to improve their index rebuild performance as their index rebuilding process is taking forever to complete. When they asked me this, I exactly knew what we needed to do for this customer. We ended up fixing the issue of index rebuild by enabling sort in TempDB. 

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