Madeira TeamJul 27, 20123 minSQL Server 2012 Snippets For DownloadSQL Server 2012 introduced a new feature – code snippets inside Management Studio. And even better, you can create your own snippets....
Madeira TeamJul 27, 20121 minSQL Azure default isolation levelI came across Bob Beauchemin’s post, stating that the SQL Azure default isolation level is read committed snapshot. This is generally...
Madeira TeamJul 27, 20121 minFree TempDB allocation performance boosterOne of our main processes was performing badly. During the investigation, we found that most of the time is wasted on creating temporary...
Madeira TeamJul 27, 20121 minmax data types performanceOn some occasions, migrating from text, ntext or image to varchar(max), nvarchar(max) or varbinary(max) can hurt performance. How is that...
Madeira TeamJul 15, 20121 minSQL in the City 2012Today I attended SQL in the City in London. The event was (very well) organized by Red Gate. I got to meet some great SQL Server MVPs and...
Madeira TeamJul 11, 20121 minCommon Pitfalls When Analyzing Execution PlansIn the last SQL Server users group meeting (#120) on July 9th I spoke about common pitfalls when analyzing execution plans. Here are the...