Actually I’m not sure if anyone still believes this anymore. If you read the BOL description carefully it states that truncate de-allocates the pages rather than deleting the rows – meaning only the de-allocations are logged – resulting in far fewer log records. Incidentally this is also why the truncate… Read more

Here are a couple of quick database and table level queries that I have found useful lately.

How many rows in each table of a database?

The first temptation with this one was to use something like sp_MSforeachtable with a count(*), until I recalled that the catalog view sys.indexes has… Read more

A question that a DBA will often be asked is what databases are actively being used on my SQL Server? We get asked it all the time, usually as part of a consolidation or rationalisation project.

My solution to this is to query the sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats DMV, which maintains counters of… Read more