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Data Types - Does size really matter? - nvarchar vs. varchar

How many of us have created a new table and used the default and first data type nvarchar for all of the text/alphanumeric fields, or had...

How To Identify The Grain

Creating a data warehouse can be challenging. Identifying the grain is one of the most important parts of having a quality data...

SQL Cluster Issues with Storage Spaces Direct - (S2D)

Bottom line? Don't use it! At least don't use it for a SQL cluster directly. Recently I stumbled on a configuration using S2D (Storage...

Trace Flag 1117 and SQL Server 2019

For VLDBs I've always created multiple files for each file group and had to set the trace flag 1117 on to ensure that all files grow at...

Data Types - Does size really matter? - DateTime vs. DateTime2

How many of us have just created a new table and put a Created Datetime and Modified Datetime field in with the default DateTime...