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Dedicated Admin Connection (DAC) in SQL Server doesn’t need any introduction now that it is in the product for almost 6-7 years i.e from the days of SQL Server 2005. Starting from the early builds of SQL Server 2012, there is an error when connecting to DAC in SQL Server DENALI. This bug exist......
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Looking at wait types in SQL Server is a great way to get some insight into how SQL Server is operating under the current load. Although wait types in SQL Server are around from the days of SQL Server 2000 (may be earlier), it has improved significantly from SQL Server 2005. New wait types are being......
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By this time everyone are aware that the next version of SQL Server i.e DENALI comes with ColumnStore Indexes which is a new concept in SQL Server. If you haven’t tried this feature yet then its about time to try it out on CTP3. I am pretty sure you will like it and this may be one of the few ......
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CHECKPOINT is one of the most misunderstood topic among developers as well as DBAs. One of the misconception is that CHECKPOINT writes only the committed data and that is NOT true. Paul Randal wrote about this topic extensively (here) and busted this myth (here)
Today, I am going to bust this myth ......
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Introduction
Everyone who works with Data warehouse data loads should be familiar with Minimal Logging. Minimal Logging helps tremendously in improving the performance of data loads as the amount of logging is reduced enormously by keeping track of only the extent allocations but not individual row......
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A good DBA always monitors what’s written to the Error log and trying to make sense of what’s happening on the server or look for potential issues or look for any traces something other than ordinary is happening.
If you are using CTP1 of DENALI, the next version of SQL Server and using......
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