Henk's tech blog

a weblog about IT optimization

Since we set the ETL World Record  with the introduction of SQL2008, a lot of insights, tips & tricks have been published on what it takes to load data fast into SQL (see also the Data loading Performance Guide). The trick described below is one to remember if you are being challenged to load a [...]

Many of the performance problems I have seen over the years where combinations of both hardware and software; some of them where very simple to detect and figure out and some have taken some time to resolve… There’s a very common one that you can detect easily during a coffee break , just by looking [...]