Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Can a monitoring tool save money? When I was a DBA responsible for 40 to 50 SQL Server instances, I didn’t have many third-party tools to... 07 April 2021 3 min read
Database Administration Monica Rathbun in Database Administration Mastering TempDB: Managing TempDB growth Out-of-control tempdb growth must be managed to keep the server running. Monica Rathbun gives her strategy to handle unexpected tempdb... 22 March 2021 11 min read
Learn SQL Server Pamela Mooney in Learn SQL Server DBA in training: SQL Server under the hood In this article of the series, Pamela Mooney explains the architecture of SQL Server under the hood, including some query... 28 January 2021 26 min read
Database Administration Edward Pollack in Database Administration SQL Server triggers: The good and the scary SQL Server triggers are another tool in your DBA or Dev toolbox. Edward Pollack explains what can go wrong with... 25 January 2021 37 min read
Database Administration Greg Larsen in Database Administration Search SQL Server error log files The SQL Server error log is helpful for troubleshooting issues. Greg Larsen demonstrates several ways to search SQL Server error... 19 January 2021 11 min read
T-SQL Programming Uwe Ricken in T-SQL Programming Heaps in SQL Server: Part 4 PFS contention When inserting rows into a heap, SQL Server must sometimes update the PFS page which can PFS contention and affect... 05 January 2021 14 min read
Blogs Kathi Kellenberger in Blogs Security is hard work I was once a database administrator in charge of several SQL Servers hosting the databases of vendor apps. Right after... 22 December 2020 2 min read
Database Administration Pamela Mooney in Database Administration DBA in training: Know your server’s limits Comparing current performance to baselines helps DBAs know when there’s a problem. In this article, Pamela Mooney describes how to... 10 December 2020 14 min read
Database Administration Pamela Mooney in Database Administration DBA in training: Security Securing data is not always easy to do, but it should be the top responsibility for database administrators. From protecting... 08 October 2020 27 min read
Database Administration Robert Sheldon in Database Administration Storage 101: Monitoring storage metrics Well tuned storage is essential for SQL Server performance. In this article, Robert Sheldon explains the metrics that are important... 06 October 2020 15 min read
Performance Edward Pollack in Performance Efficiently polling remote data sources In this article, Edward Pollack describes some of the issues when querying against remote data sources. He covers remote SQL... 30 September 2020 22 min read
Performance Robert Sheldon in Performance Computed Column Performance in SQL Server Computed columns may be the cause of hard to track down performance issues. In this article, Robert Sheldon reviews the... 10 September 2020 14 min read
T-SQL Programming Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming Hands-On with Columnstore Indexes: Part 4 Query Patterns All queries run fast against columnstore indexes, right? In this article, Edward Pollack demonstrates some query patterns that don’t perform... 01 September 2020 21 min read
Performance Edward Pollack in Performance Hands-On with Columnstore Indexes: Part 3 Maintenance and Additional Options In this article of this series, Edward Pollack demonstrates the maintenance of columnstore indexes. He also takes a look at... 21 July 2020 22 min read
T-SQL Programming Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming Hands-On with Columnstore Indexes: Part 2 Best Practices and Guidelines In the second article of this series, Edward Pollack demonstrates some ways to design and populate a columnstore index to... 24 June 2020 20 min read
Performance Greg Larsen in Performance Improve Row Count Estimates for Table Variables without Changing Code Table variables can cause performance issues with joins when they contain a large number of rows. In SQL Server 2019,... 26 May 2020 12 min read
T-SQL Programming Uwe Ricken in T-SQL Programming Heaps in SQL Server: Part 1 The Basics Most advice you see online about heaps is to avoid them. In this article, Uwe Ricken describes the basics of... 21 May 2020 9 min read
T-SQL Programming Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming Hands-On with Columnstore Indexes: Part 1 Architecture Microsoft introduced Columnstore with SQL Server 2012 and have improved the feature in every version since then. You may be... 21 May 2020 22 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials Key Insights from the 2020 State of SQL Server Monitoring Report This marks the third year that Redgate have launched a survey to better understand how organisations monitor their databases. This... 20 May 2020 3 min read
Performance Greg Larsen in Performance Right-Sizing Row Mode Query Memory Requirements When the optimizer doesn’t estimate the correct amount of memory for a query, either memory is wasted that could be... 29 April 2020 16 min read
