It’s very common for Database professionals to experience blocking. Even though blocking is a usual activity, it can convert into an issue anytime. And becomes pain point when
Like any other DBA, I fell into the trap of using straight maintenance solution using Reorganize operation for Indexes with avg fragmentation with 30% or less with Index
Recently I was reading about Temporal Tables feature that has been introduced with SQL Server 2016. So, as usual, I thought to get the knowledge in practice with
Hi Friends. If you are wondering if we should check [context_switches] counter for SQL Server Queries while performance tuning, then here is the official verdict from Paul Randal.
If you are a DBA then you understand the importance of having robust Database Maintenance Solution. Like everybody in SQL Server Community, Ola Hallengren’s Maintenance Solution is my
Being a DBA, I know the pain of a long running job creating performance issues for other jobs and user sessions. For my current organization, I have created
Recently I was working on a SQL query in my inventory database, and was greeted with below error message:- Cannot resolve the collation conflict between “Latin1_General_CI_AS” and “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS”
Hi Friends, Ever wanted to check heartbeat of SQL Server. It is very common activity for a SQL Server user to check CPU, SQL Memory Utilization, Available Memory
I often see DBAs/developer struggling to find what’s wrong with query. The first step in troubleshooting queries is finding out information like batch text, query text, batch execution
