Database mirroring is a very popular solution for high availability. Later on I am finding quite a many people DBAs opting for mirrored databases.
SQL SERVER – Compatibility Level 80 and Table Hint Behavior
It has been a while since I worked with SQL Server 2000. However, as an independent consultant, SQL Server never stops to surprise us. Recently, during one Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I found a very interesting situation which is about compatibility level 80. If you are not familiar with compatibility level, it sets database behaviors to be compatible with the specified version of SQL Server.
What are Forwarded Records in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #145
Question: What are Forwarded Records in SQL Server?
Answer: It is interesting to see this question keeps on coming up in the interview questions. Even though this is very old concept, I hardly see new DBAs know about this subject.
Let us see the answer the question about the forwarded records.
SQL SERVER – How to Create A Global Temporary Table?
Two days ago, I wrote an article SQL SERVER – How to Create Table Variable and Temporary Table? It was a very basic article for beginners. However, to my surprise, I have got tremendous response to that blog post and also got quite a lot of feedback about the it. Out of all these one feedback which stood out was that I did not include discussion about Global Temporary Table. I agree that when I was writing this blog post I did not think of this, but it is never too late to write about any topic. Let us see in this blog post how to create a global temporary table?
SQL SERVER – When to Turn On Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads?
Today, I have very interesting scenario to share with all of you. This is a true story which I encountered in my recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. It is about a very popular SQL Server setting Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads.
SQL SERVER – How to Find Stored Procedure Execution Count and Average Elapsed Time?
Every single time when I go for Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, I get many different questions from the users. However, there are some questions which are very common and I have started to build a list of the such questions so I can share the same with you. Today’s question is about the Stored Procedure Execution Count.
SQL SERVER – How to Create Table Variable and Temporary Table?
This is a very simple question and indeed many of us know about this one. However, if you are absolutely beginner, you will for sure need help with this one. Let us understand how we can create a table variable and temporary table in this simple tutorial.