As you might know, I have written a long time ago a book about Service Broker – a technology within SQL Server that almost nobody is aware of and interested in. But Service Broker provides you an elegant way to implement reliable, distributed, message-based applications directly within the database. One of the hardest things to …
Creating a distributed Service Broker application with Docker + read more
As you know, I’m a technical person, and I always want to know how technology works on the lowest possible level. This approach gives me a better understanding how modern software works, and how to troubleshoot some specific problems – like performance problems in the context of SQL Server. For that reason, I have already …
The Boot Process of a PC, and how to write your own Boot Loader + read more
Last week we laid out the foundation for how SQL Server executes queries. I have also already talked here a little bit about pages that are buffers of 8kb. Today we concentrate further on these pages and drill into more detail and what it means from a performance tuning perspective. Pages are the foundation of …
Beginning with today, I want to give you over the next few months a blog post series about the basics of performance tuning in SQL Server. Before we go into the nasty details of performance tuning in SQL Server, I want to lay out today the foundation about how SQL Server executes a query. This …
As we all know there is already a lot of information available about SQL Server related topics in English. But I’m also dealing more and more with customers who want to have some materials available in their native language – in that case in German. Therefore, I’m very pleased to announce that I have released today …
My new Online Training: SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals – German Edition + read more
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