Tag Archives: sql server

Killing FTS

Posted on June 24, 2019 by way0utwest

In almost every application that I’ve helped build, we had a need to perform textual searches of fields. Sometimes this was in short fields, like names, where we usually needed some sort of wildcard search to let users find information. … Continue reading →

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Technology Flows Downstream

Posted on June 20, 2019 by way0utwest

A few years ago, I was listening a session on Azure SQL Data Warehouse at an event. At the time, one of the features I found fascinating was the separation of the storage from the compute portions of the service. … Continue reading →

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Simulating Load

Posted on June 12, 2019 by way0utwest

I needed to generate some load for a demo and wasn’t looking forward to doing it. I was in a hurry, and didn’t want to deal with a lot of setup. Fortunately, I’d seen a technique for doing this in … Continue reading →

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What Limits Do You Want in 2019?

Posted on May 20, 2019 by way0utwest

SQL Server 2019 is in development, and likely getting close to being released. I mean, it is named 2019, so I assume we’re down less than 6 months of time before we start deploying it. One of the decisions that … Continue reading →

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