From Record Structures To TempDb in 9 Hours or Less (SQLSkills Immersion Training Day 1)
Category:
query-performance
This week I’m one lucky duck: I’m thrilled to be at SQLSkills Immersion Training on Internals and Performance in Dallas, TX.
Dirty Pages and Statistics IO
Category:
query-performance
Warning: The DROPCLEANBUFFERS command referenced in this post is appropriate for test systems only and impacts the entire SQL Instance. If you are new to SQL Server, please use this commands with care, and be careful to read the linked Books Online documentation. Happy testing!
More Running with Scissors: Corrupting your Database with 823 Errors
Category:
database-administration
This weekend, a question came up on Twitter asking if there was an easy way to simulate an 823 error. It seemed like a fun task to figure out.
Guidelines for Presentation Titles
Category:
database-administration
The recent trend towards online voting to select presentations for events at SQL Server conferences got me thinking: this is a great opportunity to look at how people vote, and consider what this means about presentation titles and abstracts.
Free Poster! Guide to SQL Server Isolation Levels
Category:
tsql-programming
Looking for the isolation levels poster? It moved, you can get it here.
Be Prepared: Collecting Data from sp_WhoIsActive in a Table
Category:
performance-tuning
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
Category:
database-administration
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.”