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How to make your T-SQL thirty percent faster

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Last week, I mentioned a feature in SQL Server, and now in Azure SQL Database, called Memory-Optimized Table-Valued Parameters, which makes use of In-Memory OLTP structures to work around a dependency on tempdb, and thereby… 

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The curious case of RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE

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A customer is running in a SQL Server 2000 environment, 32-bit AWE mode, on 64-bit Windows 2003 R2. The server has 16GB of RAM and 8 logical CPU cores. It’s running under VMWare. Storage is…