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Thanks to everyone who attended! You can get the slides and demo files here: Webinar 2.6 – Fragmentation If you missed the session, or would like to watch the recorded session, the recording is available here. Don’t miss the next webinar on December 5th: Partitioning!  Registration is available here. In addition, I am publishing a list of the upcoming topics. Please be aware they are subject to change or re-ordering. It’s not complete at this point, but it does show the planned topics […]

Thanks to everyone who attended! You can get the slides and demo files here: Webinar 2.5 — Nonclustered Indexes Because this week is a holiday week in the US, there is NO HOMEWORK! If you missed the session, or would like to watch the recorded session, the recording is available through this link. Don’t miss the next webinar on November 28th: Fragmentation! You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-kalen-delaneys-sql-server-internals-webinars-episode-9-tickets-39714618493 In addition, I am publishing a list of the upcoming topics. Please be […]

Thanks to everyone who attended! You can get the slides and demo files here: Webinar 2.4 — Clustered Indexes If you missed the session, or would like to watch the recorded version,  here is the link to the video. Solution to the homework will be posted by or on next Monday. Don’t miss the next webinar on November 21st: Nonclustered Indexes!  You can register here. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-kalen-delaneys-sql-server-internals-webinars-episode-8-tickets-39713832141 In addition, I am publishing a list of the upcoming topics. Please be aware they […]

One of the leading US agricultural suppliers wanted to upgrade their SQL Server system in order to reduce their overall SQL Server licensing expenses. We performed a thorough financial and technical analysis of their existing OLTP and BI/OLAP database system, and provided a number of optimization suggestions. In addition, we delivered a modernization roadmap to give the customer an idea of potential future plans. Discover how we approached this project from the following video. Complex customer’s system Before our customer […]

Thanks to everyone who attended! You can get the slides and demo files here: Webinar 2.3 — Large Datatype Storage And here is the link to the video. Don’t miss the next webinar on November 14th: Clustered Indexes! You can register here! ————————————– Homework discussion for Webinar #2.2: Calculate the maximum number of IAMs a single object, including its indexes, can have.

A leading provider of engineering software has a popular application deployed at thousands of customer locations. They have a plan in place to rearchitect the solution in a couple of years to use a modern application architecture with a SQL Server backend. The problem they faced was that the application used the Microsoft Access 97 Jet database engine. New customers who tried to deploy the solution on newer versions of the operating system were blocked from being able to install […]

I’ve been writing and teaching about SQL Server internals for over 25 years. While there is usually a lot of interest in my books and classes, there are always people who ask, frequently after about the first day of my 5-day class, “What’s the point? Why is this information useful to know?” What is “Internals”? First of all, we need to answer the question “What is Internals?” For SQL Server, the short answer is “The way SQL Server works internally!” […]

Thanks to everyone who attended! You can get the slides and demo files here: Webinar 2.2 — Allocation Information If you missed the session, or would like to watch the recorded version, you can get a link to access the video here. Webinar #2.2 Homework:

Thanks to everyone who attended! You can get the slides, demo and homework files here: Webinar 2.1 — Tables, pages and rows If you missed the session, and/or would like to watch the recorded version, you can get a link to the recording here.   Here are solutions to the homework:

One of the world’s largest distributors of non-food consumable products wanted to rationalize their data platform and business intelligence strategy. Their current IBM DB2 database system lacked repository to host historical audit related data, so they could hardly retrieve data from past years. Then we came up with an Azure cloud database solution that could store all the historical data and created Power BI reports on top of it. We performed the IBM DB2 Azure SQL Database migration as a […]