Microsoft SQL Server – SQL Padawan

Useful transactional replication stored procedure

The scenario is when your publication settings has the option immediate_sync configured as false (means if you run the Snapshot

In a post about how update works I showed what happened when run an update with the same values. SQL Server

When thinking about migration the most common issue is downtime. There are some methods that require downtime like backup/restore or

SqlPackage is a command-line utility that you can use for exporting and importing operations in both on-premises SQL Server databases

Stretch Database is a feature of SQL Server where data can be split between on-premises storage and cloud storage. With

All system databases, except the resource database, can be moved to new locations to help balance I/O load. To move

Tempdb is a special database available as a resource to all users of a SQL Server instance, you use

Locks everywhere is a good start to understand how SQL Server provides logical consistency. Every operation has a lock and

SQL Server retrieves threads from Windows. The SQL Server configuration setting max worker threads (set at instance level) determines how

The first post about waits on SQL Server was regarding what SQL Server Wait means, a brief explanation and the