Let me start by saying that this isn’t your typical post about the Halloween problem. This is intended to describe a couple different performance problems you should be keenly aware of.
Month: October 2016
Thank you to @MrDenny
I wanted to take a quick moment to thank Denny Cherry for selecting me for Speaker Idol this year.
Why I don’t love SELECT INTO
Long ago there were locking / blocking problems with the SELECT INTO statement. That’s not the case anymore and for AdHoc operations and investigation of data SELECT INTO is very helpful.
Read this before using SQL 2016 Temporal Tables
I’ve been testing the new Temporal Tables feature over the past day to see about using it in one of our production databases. It’s a neat feature that honestly adds a boat load of possibility around logging.
In my testing I noticed that user created tables seem to store the rows over quite a bit more pages. User created history tables were nearly double the size of an auto generated one. If you’re currently using the feature or plan to use it in the near future, you’ll want to think about this storage issue before you implement.
A quick note comparing ISNULL vs COALESCE
There are hundreds of blogs that compare the T-SQL ISNULL function with the ANSI standard COALESCE function. There are also plenty of arguments of why you should use one over the other.
Off-topic: If you’re in Texas and 18+ yrs old
Today is the last day to register to vote in Texas. I’m not sure about other states in the US but I’m sure the time is almost up.
Making the case for CamelCase naming
Coding and database standards like a religion or politics. Some people are fanatics and others really don’t care whatsoever. Getting stuck between any combination of the right and left or those that don’t care can be entertaining and sometimes outright dangerous.
Understanding the new MAXDOP settings in SQL 2016
If you have just begun using SQL Server 2016 or you have been using it for a while now you may not have noticed the new MAXDOP settings.
SQL 2016 SSMS memory leak?
Has SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) been crashing on you? Have you been getting Out of Memory messages when attempting to run queries?
An observation about Unicode in SQL Server Management Studio
A week or so ago I read a blog post and tweet about using an emoji in SQL Server. This inspired me to use the ninja cat emoji for my demo database name and something interesting was discovered.
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