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A New Sample Database

Posted on June 6, 2016 by way0utwest

When I started working with SQL Server we had the pubs database. This was in SQL Server 2014, and I only used it because code samples from the Internet used it. It wasn’t a great database, but it was consistent … Continue reading →

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Running Multiple Threads Quickly

Posted on May 31, 2016 by way0utwest

Recently I was looking to generate a quick workload against an instance. I wanted to add to the amount of work my system was doing by executing a number of queries simultaneously. There are a variety of ways to do … Continue reading →

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More Overloads

Posted on May 31, 2016 by way0utwest

I was attending the SQL Nexus and SQL Bits conferences recently in Europe. These were launch events for SQL Server 2016, and the keynotes given by Microsoft included the overload of yet another SQL Server term. This time ACID was … Continue reading →

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Half Baked Features

Posted on May 17, 2016 by way0utwest

I gave a talk recently on some of the data protection features being added in SQL Server 2016, along with a few that have been available for some time. I think the talk went well, but I point out lots … Continue reading →

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