Henk's tech blog

a weblog about IT optimization

Do you know how many disk IO’s are being processed by your SQL Servers at this very moment? And how many of them are pending, waiting to be serviced? Which databases are the top IO consumers and which queries are actually creating the majority of the IO load? In this blog I will focus on […]

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 […]