Here are some news, videos, tips, and links the Procure SQL team would like to share! Scan vs. Seek The most…
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So What Is Going On? I recently ran into an issue when I set up a job to collect information from an extended event. I wanted to write that to a table in my scratch DBA database. This allowed the customer and I to slice and dice data with ease. This seemed easy enough. I […]
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Watch! Getting Started with Performance Tuning Have slow queries and want to get down to the basics of learning some…
You are out doing your scheduled sweeps of the environment and you notice a huge I/O consumer is one of your update procedures. Your initial thought may be to panic because how can you test data that is changing? You have several methods to tuning queries that adjust data that allow data to revert between […]
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How did we get here? There are many ways that a database can crash and need to recover. Maybe you find yourself here from something more severe like hardware failure, perhaps it was only a reboot and when things started to come back you see databases stuck in an “In Recovery” state. I personally have […]
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SQL Server 2022 was announced yesterday at Microsoft's Ignite Conference. Here are some of the items that caught our attention.…
What is a heap? Heap was actually named pretty accurately. It is a “pile” of unsorted/unorganized data. A heap will exist on any table that lacks a clustered index. Heaps can exist even if you have a non clustered indexes. The main advantage to a heap is the speed at which you can insert data […]
