On May 3, 2022 I will run an SQLpassion Live Training about SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals. If you have a database driven application which reacts very slowly when the data increases, then you are right in this live training! In this live training you will learn how you can tune SQL Server Queries with …
SQLpassion Live Training about Query Tuning Fundamentals + read more
In today’s blog posting I want to talk about Heap Tables in SQL Server. Heap tables are tables without a Clustered Index. A table in SQL Server can have a Clustered Index, then it’s called a Clustered Table, and without a Clustered Index, it’s called a heap table. In a heap table, the data is …
Today I’m talking about limitations that you have with data pages, and why there are restrictions that you will love, while you will hate other restrictions. As you learned, a data page is always 8kb large, and you can store 8060 bytes of data on it. And the size of your records dictates how many …
Today I’m talking about Extent Management in SQL Server, because this is a very important topic, especially when you deal with TempDb in SQL Server. On a very high level an extent is just a group of 8 pages of 8kb. An extent is therefore always a chunk of 64kb. SQL Server internally implements 2 …
As you might know, I have written a long time ago a book about Service Broker – a technology within SQL Server that almost nobody is aware of and interested in. But Service Broker provides you an elegant way to implement reliable, distributed, message-based applications directly within the database. One of the hardest things to …
Creating a distributed Service Broker application with Docker + read more
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