It's just Emanuele showing you what you can do in the Microsoft Data Platform
Imagine that you’re in a SQL data warehouse in the middle of the night, a single stored procedure is running, is nothing else, and it’s simply doing inserts and updates, one statement at the time, but then.. Deadlock. How can it be? Something else must be running, right? Someone launched something else, or a transaction was left open the day before, or the Russians were spying...
I was reading Paul White’s post about bitmaps in SQL Server and, other than realizing that I basically know nothing about anything (like a Socrate’s epiphany) I wanted to at least see how this good stuff added up in the latest 7 years. Down with experimenting, we’re doing this LIVE! (Well, it’s live for me, for you it’s still a blog post) I’ll start by creating...
If you work for a big company, you may have a bunch of instances/databases under your control, you ran whatever monitoring tool has been provided and everybody is happy; But if your’re like me and you’re working for a big number of customers, each one with a different version of SQL and own configuration/security policies, with no monitoring tool directly available, and have to answer...
The other day I was reading about spinlocks and troubleshooting and it mentioned to get the callstack for a certain xevent and to decode it using the windows debugging symbols, however, that material was related to SQL Server 2012 and the steps weren’t basically replicabile for a modern version like SQL 2016/2017 (or even 2014 I think, but haven’tn checked personally), I searched...
As any other *Server, SQL Server is born with concurrency in mind, a lot of users/applications can connect concurrently and do their job, as designed, perfect, but, what if you’re the only user? What if you’re in some kind of data warehouse configuration where you have to ETL, or you are in a maintenance window and have to do a bunch of stuff in that time, or simply you need to launch...
It’s a late Friday afternoon, this means that somebody is going to tell you that the server is unresponsive, users are blocked and there is a imperative deadline for the business at 6PM (which you think is probably because they don’t want to be late to the happy hour), so you do what you do best: sigh and log on to see what’s going on with this instance. You fire up SSMS, and...
I work with a vendor application which needs to do all sorts of data crunching in some nightly batches, and, depending on the size of data, this process may take a lot of time. Some time a go a colleague said: “we need more parallelism, we want to parallelize all the things! What can you think may go wrong?” This opened a stream of consciousness that could be really handled only by...
It's just Emanuele showing you what you can do in the Microsoft Data Platform
