Kathleen Long

SQL Server Lead DBA & Delivery Manager

Kat is a SQL Server Lead DBA and Delivery Manager at XTIVIA. She is responsible for the architecture design, installation, configuration, and management of a wide range of SQL Server databases for multiple clients. Kat has 20+ years of experience with SQL Server. She is a member of PASS, as well as a part of the local SQL Server Community in Colorado Springs. She has presented at SQLSaturdays, as well as several of the National conferences. When not working with SQL Server, she enjoys hot air ballooning and crafting, with her latest focusing on free motion quilting.

Improving Foreign Key Performance with Indexing

A Foreign Key is a constraint. Due to this definition, it only places a limitation on what data can be inserted into a column(s) and does not address the indexes needed to help performance when joining tables Take the following design. If you wanted to join the 2... read more

How to create a subscription for a Transactional Publication from a backup in SQL Server

Sometimes, the time it takes and the size of the snapshot is too large for easily configuring transactional replication. To deal with this situation, SQL Server offers the ability to initialize the subscriber from the backup of the database at the publisher. Using a... read more