Tag: SQL Server Best Practices

Migrating data to Azure SQL Data Warehouse in practice

by Rangarajan Srirangam (AzureCAT) // 0 Comments

Authors: Rangarajan Srirangam, Mandar Inamdar Contributors and Reviewers: John Hoang, Sanjay Mishra, Alexei Khalyako, Sourabh Agarwal, Osamu Hirayama, Shiyang Qiu Overview: Migrate data to Azure SQL Data Warehouse Azure SQL Data Warehouse is an enterprise-class, distributed database, capable of processing massive volumes of relational and non-relational data. It can deploy, grow, shrink, and pause in seconds. As… Read more

SQLSweet16!, Episode 6: DBCC CHECKDB with MAXDOP

by Sanjay Mishra // 6 Comments

Reviewed By: Dimitri Furman DBCC CHECKDB is a common database maintenance task. It can take up significant amount of system resources, and can impact the performance of the production workload. There are some very good articles on the web on optimizing performance of DBCC CHECKDB and minimizing performance impact. SQL Server 2016 (and now backported… Read more

AlwaysOn Availability Group in Windows Azure VM: Client Connectivity Scenarios

by Sanjay Mishra // 3 Comments

Author: Sanjay Mishra Contributors: Piyush Ranjan, Steven Schneider Reviewers: Ed Muth, Chuck Heinzelman, Silvano Coriani, Rama Ramani, Juergen Thomas, Cephas Lin, Lori Clark, Luis Carlos Vargas Herring Once you have created AlwaysOn Availability Groups in Windows Azure VM (tutorial) and created the Availability Group Listener (tutorial), it is important to know how the applications will… Read more

SQLCAT.Com – eBook Downloads

by AzureCAT // 3 Comments

As of September 1, 2013 we decided to remove SQLCAT.COM site and use MSDN as the primary vehicle to post new SQL Server content. This was done to minimize reader confusion and to streamline content publication.  MSDN SQLCAT blogs already includes most SQLCAT.COM Content and will continue to be updated with more SQLCAT learnings.  You can also… Read more

SQLCAT.com consolidated index of Whitepapers

by SQLShep // 8 Comments

In an effort to migrate as much content as possible from SQLCAT.com to the MSDN SQL CAT site we have consolidated all of the Whitepapers published over the last few years.   While all of the content actually exists on Technet and MSDN download sites, SQLCAT was a great resource to start looking.  Hopefully this will… Read more

Technical Reference Guides for Designing Mission-Critical Solutions using SQL Server are available

by Prem Mehra // 0 Comments

The Technical Reference Guides for Designing Mission-Critical Solutions provide planning and architecture guidance for various mission-critical workloads deployed by users. These guidesreflect the knowledge gained by the CAT team while working with customers onmission-critical deployments, many of these deployments being the result ofdeep customer engagements by the CAT organization. Each guide provides not onlythe key… Read more

Successfully execute an INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE against a Database Snapshot

by shauntj // 13 Comments

Author: Shaun Tinline-Jones Reviewers: Mike Ruthruff, Sanjay Mishra, Alexei Khalyako Not too long ago an ISV that developed solutions using SQL Server as the RDBMS, asked me how they could query a database as at a point in time. This was a relatively easy answer, thanks to the Database Snapshot feature. I was however surprised at the… Read more

“QUOTED_IDENTIFIER” causes Unexpected Query Plan for Persisted Computed Column query

by shauntj // 1 Comments

Author: Shaun Tinline-Jones Technical Reviewers: Thomas Kejser, Steve Howard, Jaime Alva Bravo, Kun Cheng, Jimmy May Note: Validation for this post was performed in the SQL CAT Customer Lab on an HP Proliant DL580 G7, Intel Xeon Nehalem E7-4870 2.40 GHz 4 socket, 10 physical cores, 20 logical cores for a total of 40 physical… Read more

Optimize Recursive CTE Query

by shauntj // 7 Comments

Author: Shaun Tinline-Jones Reviewers: Lubor Kollar; Conor Cunningham; Steve Howard; Kun Cheng; James Podgorski; Jimmy May; Joseph Sack; Welly Lee; Neeraj Joshi; Keith Bauer Introduction We recently assisted a global ISV to address a performance issue related to a poor performing recursive CTE (Common Table Expression). The ISV wanted the query that was running in… Read more

Linked Servers to SQL Azure

by Kevin Cox SQL Server // 15 Comments

Authors:  Kevin Cox & Michael Thomassy Contributors: Lubor Kollar Technical Reviewers: Shaun Tinline-Jones, Chuck Heinzelman, Steve Howard, Kun Cheng, Jimmy May Overview   Connecting directly to a SQL Azure database from a reporting tool (like Microsoft Excel and PowerPivot, or SQL Server Reporting Services) from your desktop or local data center is possible using a… Read more