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What’s the big difference between Oracle and SQL Server indexes (Part I)

Luke — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:35:30 +0000

Last week Erin Stellato (blog| twitter) has asked a very interesting question on Twitter that triggered this post:

So how is it you can have good perf in Oracle, w/o IOTs, but in SQL Server, everyone says need CIs for good perf?

There are two aspects to that question

What is the difference between index [...]

What three events brought you here?

Luke — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:51:00 +0000

Recently Paul Randal (aka Mr. Tripp) started a web version of the tag game in the SQL Server blogging community on what were the three most important events that shaped your career and got you to this point in your life. It is a very difficult question because unlike data, life events do not accept [...]

Why did SQL Server cross the road?

Luke — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:23:46 +0000

I posted a comment on Kevin Kline’s blog regarding:

Microsoft Marketing Throws SQL Server Under the Bus

“A spokesperson for Microsoft said that the problem was not bandwidth but that its SQL Server database had reached excessive fragmentation levels caused by the tremendous surge of queries”. Read about it here:

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