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Weekly reading #14

SQLDay starts in a week! Stay tuned during this week as it could be full of surprises! We are ready & prepared and speakers start to arrive next Saturday!...

2019-05-05

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Weekly reading #11

Good day folks! Let’s make this week great (again)! It is spring already there so it is easy to get up at 6am and write the blog! Now looking...

2019-04-15

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Question of the Day

Creating Statistics on XML

I have a table in SQL Server 2022 that is an XML data type. I have an index on this column and want to create statistics using CREATE STATISTICS for some of the data in the column. What should I do?

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