Simon Liew

Simon Liew is an independent SQL Server Consultant in Sydney, Australia. He is a Microsoft Certified Master for SQL Server 2008 and holds a Master’s Degree in Distributed Computing.

2017 Awards MSSQLTips award

2016 Awards MSSQLTips award

Category	Tip Title
Availability Groups	Recover WSFC using Forced Quorum for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group
Availability Groups	SQL Server 2016 Availability Group Automatic Seeding
Availability Groups	SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group Backup Preference Setting
Availability Groups	What is SQL Server AlwaysOn?
Backup	Backup Compression Performance Enhancements for SQL Server 2016 TDE Enabled Databases
Clustering	Dynamic Quorum for Windows Server 2012 R2 Cluster to Support SQL Server AlwaysOn
Clustering	Understand How Dynamic Witness Works for a SQL Server WFSC
Compression	SQL Server 2016 COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS functions
Database Administration	Access is denied error when attaching a SQL Server database
Database Configurations	SQL Server Page Verify CHECKSUM vs NONE Performance
Database Configurations	SQL Server Proportional Fill Algorithm Example
Database Configurations	Understanding the COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT clause in SQL Server
Database Console Commands DBCCs	Execute SQL Server DBCC SHRINKFILE Without Causing Index Fragmentation
Database Console Commands DBCCs	SQL Server Database Corruption and Impact of running CHECKDB repair with allow data loss
Database Console Commands DBCCs	Undetected SQL Server Data Corruption with Database Page Verify option set to NONE
Database Console Commands DBCCs	Using undocumented DBCC WRITEPAGE to instigate SQL Server database corruption
Encryption	Does SQL Server TDE still work with an expired certificate
Encryption	Updating an expired SQL Server TDE certificate
Functions System	SQL Server COUNT() Function Performance Comparison
Functions User Defined UDF	Refactor SQL Server scalar UDF to inline TVF to improve performance
Functions User Defined UDF	Understand the Performance Behavior of SQL Server Scalar User Defined Functions
In Memory OLTP	In-Memory OLTP: Using Memory-Optimized Tables to Replace SQL Server Temporary Tables
Indexing	SQL Server Performance Issue for Single Row Delete or Update Operations
Licensing	Differences between SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition - Server CAL and Per Core Licensing
Master Data Services	Migrate SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) model objects and data
Other Database Platforms	How to Quickly Copy Data Using SQL Server Data Tool (SSDT)
Performance Tuning	Get SQL Server Delayed Durability Advantages Without Configuration Changes
Performance Tuning	SQL Server Enterprise Advanced Scan aka Merry-Go-Round Scan
Performance Tuning	Windows Server Power Management Effect on SQL Server
Query Plans	SQL Server sys.dm_exec_query_plan Query Plan is NULL
Restore	Different Ways to Restore a SQL Server Database
Restore	How to Perform an Online Page Level Restore in SQL Server
Restore	Understanding SQL Server Log Sequence Numbers for Backups
SQL Server Configurations	How to hot-add a vCPU to a virtual SQL Server
SQL Server Configurations	SQL Server Max Memory Setting with Lock Pages in Memory
SQL Server Configurations	SQL Server Perfmon Counters - Target vs Total Memory and Max Memory
SQL Server Configurations	Understanding SQL Server Lock Pages in Memory, AWE API and Windows Task Manager
System Databases	Importance of Performing DBCC CHECKDB on all SQL Server Databases
System Databases	SQL Server Temporary Table Caching
System Databases	Tempdb size resets after a SQL Server service restart
Transactions	Long Running Transactions Cause SQL Server Transaction Log to Grow
TSQL	Convert SQL Server Base64 Encoded Text to Images
TSQL	Different Ways to Write a Cursor in SQL Server
TSQL	SQL Server Query Performance for INSERT SELECT vs INSERT EXEC

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