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Things I learned today

I'm involved with some tuning as usually tends to be the case and amongst the work I've been doing a couple of interesting points arose. Firstly we upgraded the memory in the production cluster, what was unusual for me was that we added more memory than...

Analysing Indexes Part 2

Here's the next instalment, expect there to at least another two or three. I’m still only working with basic indexing No partitioning I’m not looking at xml indexes. 14.0 Collecting Raw Index usage data Collects table name, index name , reads and writes...

Maxdop hint for Views

With the advent of multi core processors the issue of parallelism is likely to cause more problems than before – the usual posted answer on forums to resolve parallelism ( CXPACKET ) locks is to disable or severely restrict processors. I’m sure this is...
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