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SQL Server Monitoring: Keeping Your Database Healthy

For an instructor lead, in-depth look at learning SQL click below. Learn SQL >> Properly monitoring your SQL Server database is essential to maintaining its health and performance. With the right tools and practices, you can ensure that your server is running optimally and promptly identify any issues that may arise. In this post, we […]

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SQL Server Optimization Techniques: Maximizing Performance

For an instructor lead, in-depth look at learning SQL click below. Learn SQL >> Optimizing your SQL Server performance is key to ensuring that your applications run smoothly and efficiently. This article will discuss several methods for optimizing your server and provide examples of SQL code to help you get started. 1. Indexing Indexing helps

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SQL Server In-Memory OLTP: Performance Enhancements

For an instructor lead, in-depth look at learning SQL click below. Learn SQL >> In-Memory OLTP in SQL Server is a powerful feature integrated into the SQL Server Engine. It’s designed to speed up transactional processing and data ingestion significantly. It’s well known for its high performance and benefits brought to business applications and Big

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SQL Server Log Shipping: Disaster Recovery Solution

For an instructor lead, in-depth look at learning SQL click below. Learn SQL >> In the world of database administration, disaster recovery planning is a critical task that needs to be well-implemented. SQL Server offers a variety of techniques for maintaining the integrity and availability of data. One such effective technique is SQL Server’s Log

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SQL Server Statistics: Improving Query Performance

For an instructor lead, in-depth look at learning SQL click below. Learn SQL >> In the realm of SQL Server database management, Statistics is a fundamental feature that plays a key role in optimizing query performance. If your statistics are up-to-date, the SQL Server query optimizer can make better decisions on execution plans, potentially improving

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SQL Server TempDB Configuration Best Practices

For an instructor lead, in-depth look at learning SQL click below. Learn SQL >> Microsoft SQL Server’s TempDB is a system database that’s critical for SQL operations. To achieve optimal performance from SQL Server, the TempDB should be configured properly. Here are some best practices for configuring TempDB. 1. Create Multiple TempDB Files Creating multiple

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SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption (TDE): Protecting Data

For an instructor lead, in-depth look at learning SQL click below. Learn SQL >> In our data-driven world, protection of sensitive data is paramount. Thus, Microsoft SQL Server offers a feature, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), geared towards this need. Its purpose is to provide real-time I/O encryption and decryption of data and log files, ensuring

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SQL Server Temporal Tables: Tracking Data Changes Over Time

For an instructor lead, in-depth look at learning SQL click below. Learn SQL >> If you are dealing with data that changes over time and need to maintain a historical record of those changes, SQL Server Temporal Tables is a feature you should know. Temporal Tables, introduced in SQL Server 2016, are system-versioned tables that

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