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...
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- Feb 27
- 2 min
Parquet, CSV, or SQL Server with PowerBI
Recently a question came up on the various file types that would be best to load into PowerBI, so I ran a few tests to see how it would...
- Nov 18, 2021
- 1 min
Max Degree of Parallelism - Does it Matter?
Recently I encountered a Microsoft SQL Server with relatively high and very consistent CPU usage with few peaks and valleys. When...
- Jul 20, 2021
- 3 min
Compile and Present DiskSpd Results Using PowerShell and PowerBI
Over my years consulting, I've done quite a few performance tests for clients using DiskSpd (formally SQLIO), and I usually manually...
- Apr 14, 2021
- 2 min
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...
- Mar 16, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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