Cardinality: Not Just For The Birds
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When building indexes for your queries, the order of your index key columns matters. SQL Server can make the most effective use of an...
2019-01-29
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When building indexes for your queries, the order of your index key columns matters. SQL Server can make the most effective use of an...
2019-01-29
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When building indexes for your queries, the order of your index key columns matters. SQL...
2019-01-29
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While most of us strive to make as few mistakes as possible when it comes...
2019-01-25 (first published: 2019-01-15)
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The execution plan cache is a great feature: after SQL Server goes through the effort of generating a query plan, SQL Servers saves that...
2019-01-22
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While most of us strive to make as few mistakes as possible when it comes to our servers and data, accidents do occasionally happen.
Sometimes...
2019-01-15
This post is part 3 in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 1 – nested...
2019-01-10 (first published: 2019-01-02)
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This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #110 prompt by Garry Bargsley. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2019-01-08
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This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #110 prompt by Garry Bargsley. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
2019-01-08
This post is part 3 in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 1 - nested loops joins, and part 2 - merge joins).
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2019-01-02
A few days ago I was surprised to learn from Aaron Bertrand of SentryOne that he was selecting me as Community Influencer of the Year for 2018.
Aaron states that...
2019-01-01
By Steve Jones
This series looks at the Advent of Code challenges. I started the Advent of...
By Kevin3NF
Welcome back to my Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs series. Last...
Jon Schwabish over at PolicyViz has created great initiative called the One Chart at...
Hi all, We have 2 DMV's: sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats And they don't look they can...
This is kinda hard to explain, maybe I can make sense of it. So...
Dear friends, Please, could you give me some ideas, how to implement SELECT count(*)...