Today I had the opportunity to present on TempDB to the Spokane SQL Server users group (PASS Chapter). The session was titled TempDB – Do This and Don’t Do That”, and it covers a bunch of tips and best practices around what to do and avoid relating to TempDB on your SQL Server. Here is the download of the presentation and …
A while back a wrote a blog post with a query to Visualize the VLF’s in your database. Today I have an update to that script. Here is an updated script that has adds another column called “TextStatus” to the output to give you a better idea of what the different statuses mean. You now get 3 statuses shown, “In …
One of my favorite queries this week is the following query that creates a text based bar chart to quickly help visualize the VLF files on any database log file. In the last month I have given the “TempDB Do This and Don’t Do That” presentation twice, once at the Bellingham SQL Server users group, and another time at SQL …
Today I am presenting my “TempDB – Do This and Don’t Do That” session at SQL Saturday Redmond. Here is the download of the presentation and samples. StedmanTempDbPresentation.zip Some of the sample code from the session: I hope you enjoy the session.
When creating a table you can specify IDENTITY with the following syntax: For example The IDENTITY property is valid for data types of the integer data type category, except for the bit data type, or decimal data type. So how many rows can you insert into that table? It depends on the data type used. BIGINT maximum value is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 …