Free Poster! Guide to SQL Server Isolation Levels
Looking for the isolation levels poster? It moved, you can get it here.
Be Prepared: Collecting Data from sp_WhoIsActive in a Table
I am a fangirl of Adam Machanic’s free sp_whoisactive stored procedure.
One of the great things about sp_whoisactive is that it’s very quick to generate a table to collect the data you need, then run the procedure in a loop with a wait statement to regularly collect the data you want over an interval.
My Session on Isolation Levels in Cleveland on February 5
A few weeks ago I was talking with a friend about upcoming plans. Without thinking, I said:
“Oh, and I’m going to go to Cleveland to talk about Isolation Levels. And partitioning. In February.”
Internals Matter: Why You Should Check Your Page Verify Settings
This post is about two things: 1) Your Page Verification Settings are Critical You should confirm you are running with the correct page verification settings on your SQL Server databases. It’s very important, and I’ll show you why. 2) I Should Attend the Awesome SQLSkills Master Immersion Event - Internals and Performance My scripts to demo the importance of page verification settings are part of my entry to win free registration to the SQLSkills Master Immersion Event on Internals and Performance in February.
Corrupting Databases for Dummies- Hex Editor Edition
This Post Tells You How To Corrupt a SQL Server Database with a Hex Editor in Gruesome Detail
And that’s all this post tells you. Not how to fix anything, just how to break it.
Read from the Right End of the Index: BACKWARD Scans
Optimizing queries is the most fun when you don’t need to add indexes. There’s nothing quite so nice as finding a way to make reading data faster, without slowing down writes or creating new data structures that need to be maintained.
Writing a Technical Blog: Why to do it and what to write about
Recently I read Paul Randal’s ( blog | twitter ) post, “So you want to blog about SQL Server?” and it got me to thinking.
2011: More Nerdy Drawrings (TSQL Tuesday #14)
This month’s #tsql2sDay is hosted by Jen McCown ( blog | twitter ) and Jen’s question is “What techie resolutions have you been pondering, and why?”
Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME
With every new year I think a little bit about time and dates. This posts looks a little more at that in TSQL.
Filling in Data Potholes Redux: Tally Tables vs CTEs
In A Previous Installment… our heroine (that’s me) rediscovered CTEs, specifically in the recursive style. That was in my post “Filling in Data Potholes with Recursive CTEs.”