In this post, I walk through the steps of basic index analysis and, although we end up with a fairly obvious solution, we discover that optimizing SQL Server performance sometimes doesn’t even involve SQL Server. One of the occupation hazards, if you will, of being a DBA, is that you tend to think about possible […]
Database normalization is typically a good thing. It helps reduce the amount of errors in a database by having important information only stored in one place.It maintains referential integrity and helps prevent what are known as insertion and deletion anomalies. It allows the database design to accommodate future expansions of data storage requirements and makes […]