Episode 160 - OPTION RECOMPILE and the m...

Guy talks about an interesting incident involving performance problems in a virtual environment. And also, we talk about the SSMS StatisticsParser extension and the question of SSMS extensions in general. Relevant links: vmware.com/docs/sql-server-on-vmware-best-practices-guide H ... Show More

Guy and Eitan discuss a few new things in the latest SSMS update, and Eitan tells about a very peculiar use case involving transactional replication and AlwaysOn Availability Groups, and Guy talks about a use case involving deletion triggers. Important note: The part about SQL Se ... Show More

Guy and Eitan discuss several very interesting new features recently announced by Microsoft. Relevant links for more info: Stop defragmenting and start living: introducing auto index compaction | Microsoft Community Hub Automatic Index Compaction - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Da ... Show More

Erik Darling joins Kendra Little to rate different SQL Server Performance Tuning Techniques in episode 81 of the Dear SQL DBA podcast. We share our opinions of... (deep breath)   Recompile hints, Query Store hints and plan forcing, CTEs, Resource Governor, the legacy cardinality ... Show More

New to learning SQL Server? Get the scoop on free online resources to look up information, ask questions of community members, and learn SQL Server from the ground up. Links from the episode are at: https://sqlworkbooks.com/dear-sql-dba/training-resources-for-sql-noobs/ 

<p>The evolution of SQL and the ease of access to ever larger sizes of computational power has made SQL and ETL a useful pairing for practitioners in the data space. But how do they work together exactly? And what challenges can it pose?</p> <p>Bharani Subramaniam and Madhu Podil ... Show More

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Hey Hussein I have a 2 million row table used in my CRUD python app, I’m worried that as the table grow my inserts will slow down, should I consider sharding my database or partition the table? thank you I’m avid of simplicity in design if I can do it in one machine I’ll do it. S ... Show More

Things to consider when choosing a database Speed & Latency Consistency, ACID Compliance Scalability Language support & Developer Experience Relational vs. NoSQL) Data types Security Database environment Client vs Server access Info on Kris & Harper: Website: harperdb.io Twitter: ... Show More

<p>MongoDB, Postgres, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL, or any other database manages concurrency control differently. There are two methods, pessimistic and optimistic, both have their pros and cons. Let explore how different databases implement this and what is the effect on perf ... Show More

<p>The communication between backend applications and database systems always fascinated me. The protocols keep evolving and we are in constant search for an efficient protocol that best fit the workload of Backend-DB communication.</p> <p>In this episode of the backend engineeri ... Show More

<p>MySQL is clustered by default on the primary key which means inserts have to be ordered, let us discuss why UUID (random in nature) has bad performance in MySQL and whether postgres wins here. We will also explain why Sequential Writes are Faster than Random in MYSQL and &nbsp ... Show More

Replication is the process of pushing changes from the master node to worker replica nodes in a database system to allow for horizontal scalability. One of the methods of replication is statement-based which is popular in MySQL. In this episode of the Backend Engineering Show, I ... Show More