An adventure on SQL Server performance and features
I don’t know you, but people from other BU are old fashioned guys that do everything by hand, and then send you an Excel file to “put this data in the database” or “find info related to this codes”. This is an hassle, especially if you don’t have the Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB provider installed in your machine (or for some reason SSMS doesn’t recognize it or...
What it is and how to get it When working with SQL Instances that have lots of databases, sensitive data and equally lots of users/applications that accesses those, it can get pretty troublesome to keep track of every user, for every database, down to the single column/action.That’s why I developed this report, in orde to be able to quickly determine the security status of each object or...
It must have happened you at least once to find identity columns with values that from one row to the next one jump by 1000’s rows, of course without having anyone deleting the rows in between, how this occurs? Identity columns don’t actually recalculate every time the next number to be inserted, SQL Server caches a number of values in order to obtain faster inserts and polls from...
A conversation had me wondering about performance implications in SQL Server RLS feature, specifically on how to mitigate the performance impact;TL; DR; ? Since security functions are actually Inline Table Valued Functions (ITVF), if you write them in a decent way the queries will run in the most efficent way possibile, avoiding RBAR processing. Let’s set the case scene; I’m starting...
Working with strings in SQL Server isn’t as easy or powerful as using any programming language, but, I’m sure that more than once you had to to some data manipulation directly in the database, this may help you out, and it doesn’t use Loops, CLR or XML The idea is to exploit set logic, as opposed to the classic program logic of when you’re usually playing with strings in...
As my “community service” this month, I’ve worked on this neat (I hope!) PowerBI report (and companion stored procedure) to easily analyze all what you wanted to know about your Agent Jobs execution, but were too afraid to ask to the standard Reports in SSMS. This is part of the FirstRespondersKit toolkit, which I encourage you to check out. Installation: Install the...
It will be part of the FirstResponderKit tool, free for all
I was wondering if PowerBI could be used for reporting on Live data, not coming from my Database using DirectQuery (or the new super neat composite mode) with with a Streaming Dataset, which I never used before, so, I got to work. The Proof Of Concept is to take live data from Cryptocurrency value using REST API and pushing them into a PowerBI report.I’m using the API from...
Panic: Someone has messed up and deleted a super important piece of information in a table! Who did it? Nobody knows. When did it happen? “The data was there this morning” Super useful info, thanks brah. So you activate your DBA Magic Powers© and try to deal with this stuff yourself: you need to identify which is the exact point where the data has been deleted (in order to minimize...
Columstore indexes are a “new” neat data structure that I like, even if technically they’ve been around for years, only recently they’ve become usable by most customers. Let me recap a little bit what we’re talking about, so the point of this will be clearer: The table is divided in rowgroups of about one million rows max, then each column is stored by itself in a...
An adventure on SQL Server performance and features
