By Lori Brown | Miscellaneous , SQL Administration , SQL Server
— By Lori Brown @SQLSupahStah I recently was tasked with finding out how implementing TDE on a database along with encrypting several columns in a heavily used table was going to affect application code and query performance. Here are the steps I took to implement TDE encryption along with some query run statistics. I also […]
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Available in SQL 2012 & 2014 Enterprise Edition ColumnStore Indexes were introduced in SQL 2012 and are designed to improve performance in data warehouses. These indexes are good for batch processing and read only queries that use large data sets. Tables that are bulk loaded are good candidates. ColumnStore Indexes stores data in a columnar […]
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Available in SQL 2014 Enterprise Edition since only used for partitioned indexes Statistics are VERY important to the SQL database engine and are what helps the optimizer make good execution plans. So, maintaining statistics is a super important part of any DBA’s job. In the past updating statistics on large tables can be very resource […]
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There are two new system views and two system views that have new columns added in SQL 2014. Most notable is sys.databases since this is widely used. sys.xml_indexes – Has 3 new columns: xml_index_type, xml_index_type_description, and path_id. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176003.aspx sys.databases – Has 3 new columns: is_auto_create_stats_incremental_on, is_query_store_on, and resource_pool_id. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178534.aspx sys.column_store_row_groups – New view. Provides clustered […]
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Available in SQL Server 2014 – All Editions Delayed Durabilty is a way to defer the acknowledgement of the transaction log records getting written to disk, i.e. transactions can continue without waiting, and SQL will assume that the log record *will* be written. You may know the ACID rules (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) that guarantee […]
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Available in SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition In-Memory OLTP is a new lock-free, latch-free, optimistic concurrency approach to storing data in memory. While it may seem reminiscent of DBCC PINTABLE is it definitely not the same since data in memory-optimized tables is not organized in pages, and does not use the Buffer Pool. It is […]
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Recently I had to do some R&D for a project and needed to generate a large table to test performance on. Since it is important to test queries on large data sets I thought that I would post how I populated a few data types in my table. To test query results I decided that […]
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