January SoCal Code Camp Sessions Being Posted
The SoCal Code Camp website has started accepting sessions for the next Code Camp in January. I’ve put a couple of sessions up there already. I’ve got one on SQL Server Indexing for the Client Developer, and one on SQL Server Service Broker Advanced Performance Tips and Tricks. I’m open to suggestions as to what […]
Back To Basics: Creating Indexes
After you have created your tables, and stored procedures you will have a basic idea of what queries are going to be running against your database. If you haven’t already done so, its now time to start adding indexes to your database. The catch with index is that there is such a thing as to […]
How to configure storage in SQL Server DB with more writes than reads
All to often articles and presentations about storage work under the assumption that you have a typical OLTP database with mostly reads. However there are plenty of databases out there which are mostly writes and very few reads. Setting these systems up takes a different technique for best performance. In my just released article on […]
Back To Basics: What’s the difference between a Scan and a Seek?
There are a few basic operations which SQL will perform when looking for the data that you need. Here they are listed in the order of worst to best. Table Scan Clustered Index Scan Index Scan Clustered Index Seek Index Seek The basic rule to follow is Scans are bad, Seeks are good.