A Fine Slice Of SQL Server
Mark Litwintschik plans a journey:
I recently came across a transit route feed aggregator called Transitland. They list feeds from 2,500 operators in 55+ countries around the world. Among these feeds is one for FlixBus, a 12-year-old coach service provider. Below is a route map of their European destinations.
In this post, I’ll import their feed into PostgreSQL, build visualisations of their routes and plan a bus trip from Vienna to Oslo.
Read on for the process.
Comments closedEitan Blumin deals with a clone problem:
This article published by Brent Ozar is very informative about redundant/duplicate indexes, what they mean, why they’re bad, and what should be done with them.
Also, a few years ago, Guy Glantser published a post about dropping redundant indexes. It’s very useful for finding all redundant indexes within all tables in a specific database.
But what both of these articles are missing – is the ability to easily generate Drop/Disable commands for these redundant indexes.
Additionally, what if there are “similar” indexes that are only “partially” redundant, and therefore it’s not enough to simply drop one of them? Otherwise, some queries may suffer a negative performance impact.
Click through for the article and be sure to pay close attention to the important note, which I’ll summarize: “kind of redundant” doesn’t always mean redundant.
Comments closedJose Manuel Jurado Diaz finds excessive resource semaphore waits:
Today, we got a service request that our customer reported that they query are taking too much for their execution. The main wait stats found was RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE and I would like to share with you my lessons learned here.
We executed this query to find out the queries and check the resource semaphore wait type.
Click through for the queries and diagnosis.
Comments closedDeepthi Goguri rounds up some thoughts on new features:
I am overwhelmed with gratitude by looking at the number of responses we received for my February month of T-SQL Tuesday invitation. Surely, I see so much interest and curiosity for the newly available features in Azure SQL and SQL Server 2022. Not to mention, for the new year resolutions too
Click through for links to a baker’s dozen responses.
Comments closedMeagan Longoria is moderately pleased:
Everyone’s vision is a little different. It is rare (impossible?) that a color theme is accessible for everyone. For instance, while many people with color vision deficiency have trouble distinguishing red and green hues, others have trouble distinguishing blue hues. So when we optimize to accommodate one condition, we may make things more difficult for another condition. This happened with the change in accent color in Power BI Desktop from yellow to teal. Changing to teal increased color contrast, which was great for people with low vision, but it caused new issues for some people with color vision deficiency.
While I am very happy to see these new color themes, I hope everyone understands that they aren’t just generally accessible for all uses. As mentioned in the blog post, they specifically have better color contrast to achieve a contrast of at least 3:1, which is the contrast recommended by WCAG for non-text content.
Read the whole thing. There’s a delicate balancing act between having a complete color scheme and satisfying a variety of needs. It sounds like this theme doesn’t quite cut it, though hopefully there will be some improvements in the future.
Comments closedAaron Bertrand has 99 problems and this stored procedure is 40 of them:
I’ve been at this for a while now, and have a very particular set of rules and coding conventions that I follow when writing and, more importantly, reviewing T-SQL code. I often perform code reviews and thought it would be fun to frame this exercise: a completely fictitious stored procedure hits my desk, I’ll reject it of course, and enumerate the reasons why. The procedure might pass review in a lot of shops, but not in mine.
Click through and give it a try. Aaron has outdone himself with this and I got angry with him about 2/3 of the way through the procedure. That’s how you know it’s a good example.
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