Aaron Bertrand starts a series explaining how he evaluated the default trace and decided to replace it with a slimmer Extended Events session across all of production.
Aaron Bertrand continues his series on large table compression with results from row and page compression as well as a process involving scheduler manipulation.
Itzik Ben-Gan continues his mind-bending series on NULL complexities in T-SQL, treating a variety of constructs including most people's nemesis, the MERGE statement.
