This topic is relevant only for databases under the full recovery model that contain multiple filegroups. In this example, a database named `adb` contains three filegroups. Filegroups `A` and `C` are ...

We have an app that stores documents in the database as a varbinary(max) column. Our current average document size is about 475KB, so these are not large documents by any means, but there are a fair ...

As mentioned in my post on VLDBs, one of the key pieces of a high performing solution is the use of Read-only Filegroups. If a significant part of your data is not changing, then why not tell SQL ...

SQL Server 2014 introduces memory-optimized database technology for optimizing the performance of OLTP workloads. In particular, it introduces memory-optimized tables for efficient, contention-free ...

In my last blog entry, I talked about VLDBs. One of the tactics suggested was to use as many data files on as many drives as possible to give better I/O performance. This makes sense, but the usual ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 brings new performance and scalability gains by introducing In-Memory OLTP. In-Memory OLTP contains tables and indexes optimized for in memory. Transactions execute under ...