As many of you know, I am an indecent SQL Server Consultant, who purely focus on SQL Server Performance. Every single day, I keep two slots each hour long available for users who need my help urgently. I never ever pre-book them because, I believe it is critical to help people who needs help NOW. Well let us learn in this blog post about how I recently helped a customer to improve performance by turning off AUTO_CLOSE Database Option.
SQL SERVER – How to Hide Number of Rows Affected Message? – SET NOCOUNT
In this blog post, we are going to talk about how to hide the number of rows affected messages with the help of SET NOCOUNT.
SQL SERVER – 2016 – Wait Stats and Queues Script Updated – Identify Resource Bottlenecks
NOTE: This script will just work fine with earlier version of SQL Server (2008, 2012, 2014) along with SQL Server 2016. It will give the expected results in all the SQL Server versions. This script will help you identify resource bottlenecks in your SQL Server.
A few years ago, I wrote the script which will help us identify SQL Wait Stats and Queues. It is a very popular script. You can find the link to the script over here: Introduction to Wait Stats and Wait Types. However, it has been a long time since I wrote that script and it was written for SQL Server 2008.
SQL SERVER – Columnstore Index Cannot be Created When Computed Columns Exist
Explorations working with SQL Server never stop and I get an opportunity to learn something every other day. Today I thought of bringing pout some learning that happened to me by accident. As I was not sure and assumed certain things, these came as a surprise learning for me. So let us see what is the issue at hand, which is about Columnstore Index and Computed Column.
SQL SERVER – What is Deadlock Scheduler? How to Reproduce it?
If you have come on this page by internet search, then you must have seen below error in the ERRORLOG which is about deadlock scheduler.
SQL SERVER – Identifying If Database Supports InMemory OLTP Functionality
I had recently received an email about InMemory OLTP Functionality in Email when I was having a vacation with my family in the Australia.
SQL SERVER 2016 – InMemory OLTP LOB Datatype Enhancement
My exploration with SQL Server 2016 features are just continuing and I am delighted every other day to figure out something new been added to the capabilities which in the opinion were of limited capacity in the prior versions of SQL Server. I will spare the ranting exercise for now but will look at some of the things that caught my attention in my recent exploration with SQL Server InMemory OLTP enhancements.