SQLServer

In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton) and Sort Warnings

In-Memory OLTP is all about In-Memory. But that’s only half the truth. In today’s blog posting I want to show you that even In-Memory OLTP can cause disk activity when you just read data from memory. The problem here is inaccurate statistics in combination with explicit sort operators in the execution plan. The problem with …

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SQL Server Windowing Functions: ROWS vs. RANGE

Almost every time that I present about Windowing Functions in SQL Server, people are very interested in knowing the difference between the ROWS and RANGE option when you define your window frame. Therefore I want to show you in today’s blog posting the difference between those options, and what it means to your analytic calculations. …

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SQL Server Performance Tuning Workshop in London, June 2015

I’m very happy to announce today that I will be back with my already famous SQL Server Performance Tuning Workshop in London this year! This 5-day long workshop is scheduled from June 1 to June 5 in Central London. Besides London I also run this workshop in Utrecht/Netherlands from April 13 – 17. There are …

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