This article explains how to create customized policies for index defragmentation jobs for SQL Server
When creating indexes, database administrators should look for the best settings to ensure minimal performance impact and degradation. However, over time, indexes will get fragmented, which can severely impact server performance.
September 18, 2017
There are several ways to Export/Import SQL Server data to an Excel file. In this article, a couple of ways to import and export SQL Server data to an Excel file will be explained:
In a busy system, many things can cause a SQL query to run more slowly than expected or desired. Sometimes, getting a handle on the root cause can involve digging into wait statistics, CPU, memory or network pressure, ferreting out problems in the I/O subsystem, looking for issues in a virtual machine configuration and many other things. Often though, the problem comes down to a simple symptom: the query is doing too much I/O.
August 31, 2017
As database administrators, we obsess over a few things, things we don’t compromise on. One of them is SQL Server availability. We may use several tools, scripts, and/or configurations, in addition to constant oversight to ensure that the database is always available. We sometimes even go that extra mile to ensure availability, because we know it is easier to ensure a database is available than deal with the outcome of unavailability. In this post, let us look at some of the easiest ways to ensure availability.
August 29, 2017
Installing SharePoint farms can go from “click-click-next” to a full day work depending on the configuration level for the server farm. For administrators that are new to the farm, it can be quite troublesome to learn the farm’s configuration. In those cases, it is important to have a farm documentation with all the setting information. SharePoint documentation is also important for recreating sets of configurations for when failure occur.
August 25, 2017
Working with a database, at some point, usually means working with CRUD operations. Although not complex, CRUD operations are often used with SQL, so it is of great importance for developers to learn about how to create them efficiently and easily.
August 25, 2017
We sometimes may find ourselves in a stressful situation at work, where for example we need to update or delete some records in our database. We’ve all been there. Right after we click that “Execute” button, we realize we forgot to include a WHERE clause and the entire table is wiped instead of only one row. Although things like this can happen to the best of us, we can plan ahead and take preventative measures to make sure, we don’t get negatively impacted by the consequences of such a mistake.
August 17, 2017
Once you have a SQL Server query working correctly – that is, returning the correct results or properly updating a table with update, insert or delete operations, the next thing you usually want to look at is how well the query performs. There are simple things that you can do to improve the performance of a critical query; often those improvements can be quite dramatic!
In this article, we’ll look at one of the most-frequently-seen performance killers: SQL Server index scans. Starting with a simple example, we’ll look at what SQL Server does to figure out how to return the requested result, at least from a high level. That will allow us to zero-in on any bottlenecks and look at strategies to resolve them.
August 10, 2017
As it was explained in article on How to automatically compare and synchronize SQL Server database objects with a shared script folder, this article will explain the solution for the reverse process, when changes needs to be pulled from a shared script folder to a local database. This might be helpful if a developer returns from vacation and wants to catch up to the team with all changes or if a build has been tweaked, as part of a recent test/delivery and the latest version needs to be re-propagated directly to all developers via their local development database
July 4, 2017
In some cases, source control systems are not an option for a particular SQL developer team, due to cost concerns, lack of approval etc., but the requirements for such a system, or close approximation, for managing changes across the developer team can still be a priority.
June 5, 2017
