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Solving Common SQL Server Problems

Discover insights, techniques, and resources for troubleshooting performance, connectivity, and other types of problems commonly encountered in SQL Server environments.


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Using Registered Servers in SSMS

The Registered Servers tool in SQL Server Management Studio lets you easily save the connection information for multiple SQL Server instances....

Query Performance Tuning

Performance tuning is half science and half art form. Learn about the science half of the tuning process....

T-SQL Best Practices, Part 2

Itzik continues his discussion of T-SQL best practices; he discusses cloud compatibility, date and time best practices, the importance of writing in a standard way, and performance-related best...


8 Useful (and Free) SQL Server Downloads

The best free SQL Server downloads to help you do your job....

Physical ordering of records in an index

Question: I’ve been wondering about record storage in indexes and how SQL Server maintains the ordering. At what point do records get moved around on the index pages so that they’re stored in the...

T-SQL Best Practices, Part 1

Some T-SQL best practices include thinking in a relational way, always remembering NULLs and the three-valued-logic, realizing the full implications of using the NOLOCK hint and therefore avoiding...


IAMs: Keeping Track of Space Used

Every SQL table and index has at least one Index Allocation Map (IAM). Learn more about IAMs and how much space is actually allocated to a SQL Server table....

8 Useful (and Free) SQL Server Downloads

The best free SQL Server downloads to help you do your job....

Some Storage Vendors Just Don't Have a Clue About Databases

Recently I was shown a whitepaper from EMC titled "Backup and Recovery for Microsoft SQL Server Using EMC Data Domain Deduplication Storage Systems". Over all the whitepaper isn't bad giving...


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Things You Might Not Know about SQL Server 2012

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 has major new features, such as the new Business Intelligence edition, as well as smaller changes to licensing and a new LocalDB edition.

SQL Server Database Corruption–Part X: Page Level Restore Operations

In my previous post in my ongoing series on SQL Server database corruption I covered a list of best practices for responding to database corruption when it happens. In that post I ...

Azure Trust Services

Microsoft recently launched Trust Services for Windows Azure, an application-level encryption framework that can be used to protect sensitive data stored on the Windows Azure ...

Publishing Tabular Models to SSAS

by Mark Kromer This is a follow-up from my blog post last month here on SQL Server Pro about utilizing common traditional reporting tools like Excel and Report Builder with the ...

'Backup Completed' is NOT an Error Message

I recommend that you set your SQL Server to use the startup traceflag DBCC TRACEON (3226) to disable backup success message...

Flexibility When Waiting on Locks

An attendee at a recent performance tuning session wanted ideas to more flexibly react to locks on blocks than using the WITH (NOLOCK) hint.

Curious Case of the missing SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD waits

Question: I came across a weird case recently where we had a server that was running at 100% across all CPUs for a time but when I used the DMVs to look at wait statistics I ...

IAMs: Keeping Track of Space Used

Every SQL table and index has at least one Index Allocation Map (IAM). Learn more about IAMs and how much space is actually allocated to a SQL Server table.


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