Recently we looked at single threaded concurrency in SQL Server for workloads which only need a single core to execute. We saw how they ran at the same time with the queries effectively being round-robined on the CPU. This time out I wanted to look at how the concurrency looks when we’re working with multithreaded workloads. Setting […]
If you haven’t seen or used Markdown before, it’s a simple way to annotate plain text in a way which indicates formatting by using specific characters. This means that you can format your text as you’re typing rather than scrolling through countless options in a visual editor such as Word. Personally I find markdown so […]
Productivity is a core component of our day to day jobs in and around code. Part of that comes from the tools we use and a common one would be Notepad++ thanks to all of its handy features and plugins to extend it. One of the simplest out of the box features is the ability […]
The question for today: if we have three queries – one which takes 1 second to run, one which takes 2 seconds to run, and one which takes 3 seconds to run – how long will it take to return data for the first and last query if they all start at the same time? […]
If writing code is the meat of our work then then packaging our stored procedures for deployment is the bread and butter to complete the sandwich. Deploying them is key so here we’ll be looking at options for how to effectively script those changes. The specific challenge we’re looking at here is how to change […]
When building data solutions we’ll be handling sets of data which may need to be imported, transformed, aggregated or exported amongst other things. With more complex solutions can come a need to share this data between different areas of the process. Last week we looked at being able to share individual values within a session and […]
When developing application code we may be familiar with exchanging data and objects through the application. This practice is much less common in SQL due to being transactional when we consider application / OLTP workloads. There are however some times when exchanging values between code in the same session which is what we’ll start to […]
One of the most time consuming tasks in Management Studio is repeating the same changes across multiple lines of a query. The answer to this? – Multi Line (or Column Mode) Editing. Here’s a quick post to explain what it is, how to do it, and examples to see it in action. What is multi […]
A few weeks back we looked at options for storing multiple boolean flag values in a table. One of the options we considered was the use of a Bit Mask where we packed multiple flags into a single field. When we have individual fields within a table, using and manipulating those is straightforward. However when we’ve got […]
Whilst we have front-end code which requires faster response times, there are also times we build code with the purpose of running for extended periods of time. Examples of this could be maintenance routine, or custom built queuing mechanisms. The way in which we design longer running processes like this can be key when it […]
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