By Lori Brown | ColumnStore , Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server
I was recently looking at a way to easily identify if any objects in a database were In-Memory. Since many times I am tasked with taking on systems that I have never seen before, I have learned that it is important to have ways of checking to see if some of the more specialized features […]
Continue readingBy SQLRx Admin | ColumnStore , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month
Find out if any of your tables contain special columnstore or spatial indexes. Columnstore indexes organizes the data in columns instead of rows like traditional indexes and can increase performance on large data sets as found in data warehouses. Spatial indexes are a special type of index on a spatial column such as geometry or […]
Continue readingBy Lori Brown | ColumnStore , Expert , Partitions , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— by Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah I recently ran across a data warehouse that did have the largest table partitioned. We were migrating up to SQL 2016 and we wanted to make sure that the partitions were still working and in place. Since I felt I needed to refresh my table partitioning skills, I decided to […]
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