Tim Chapman
SQL Server Dedicated Support Engineer (PFE)
Visualizing Index Fragmenation
We all probably realize that fragmentation can be a performance hindrance, especially for scanning...
Author: TimChapman Date: 12/03/2012
Index Rebuild vs Reorganize: The transaction log edition
Recently a friend and fellow PFE Dave Levy (Twitter/Blog) and I were discussing a question someone...
Author: TimChapman Date: 09/28/2012
Optimizing ad-hoc workloads
Today's tip isn't necessarily low-level, but it is a setting that you should consider turning on for...
Author: TimChapman Date: 09/10/2012
The Joys of Filtered Indexes
A filtered index, introduced in SQL Server 2008, is a non-clustered index that contains only a...
Author: TimChapman Date: 08/27/2012
The Pains of Filtered Indexes
In a previous post I briefly went over how useful filtered indexes can be. Filtered indexes are a...
Author: TimChapman Date: 08/27/2012
How to Parse DBCC MEMORYSTATUS via Powershell
SQL Server has many ways to dig deep into diagnosing memory related problems. Today it is common to...
Author: TimChapman Date: 08/16/2012