(Greg Larsen) Have you ever cancelled a large transaction, only to find it doesn’t cancel immediately? Instead of cancelling immediately you must wait for a period of time before the transaction is cancelled.

(Rick Dobson) I am encountering requirements where I need to process a results set from a SQL Server stored procedure in another application or I am asked to pass the results set generated by a stored procedure to another team for data mining.

(Pinal Dave) Earlier this week, I wrote two blog posts which are comparing performance between regular tables and temp tables. In this blog post, we will talk about Performance Comparison between Table Variable or Temp Table.

(Bhavesh Patel) There are several techniques available to import and export data for SQL Server. In addition, there are free SQL tools and utilities available that might be helpful for specific use cases.

(Pinal Dave) Yesterday I wrote a blog post about based on the question SQL SERVER – Regular Table or Temp Table – A Quick Performance Comparison my client who is a recently hired me for Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. The question was a very simple but interesting one and I answered

(Grant Fritchey) If you’ve been reading these Database Fundamentals posts, you’ve already seen the WHERE clause because of your use of it when manipulating data with DELETE and UPDATE statements.

(Douglas P. Castilho) In some scenarios we might find different SQL Server collations between the server instance and its databases. Sometimes the collation is fixed in some table columns or inside stored procedures to solve relationship problems with columns that have different collations.

(James Serra) Introduced in April 2019, Databricks Delta Lake is, in short, a transactional storage layer that runs on top of cloud storage such as Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 and adds a layer of reliability to organizational data lakes by enabling many features such as ACID transactions, da

(Thomas LaRock) SQL Server performance objects are found inside the Performance Monitor tool, also known as perfmon.

(Pinal Dave) Recently I received a very interesting question from my client who is a recently hired me for Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. The question was a very simple but interesting one and I have decided to answer it with the proof and working demonstration.