DBA in the Cloud: Threat or Opportunity?
Five years ago the term “cloud” was still a buzzword, and there was a lot of uncertainty and misconception around...
2014-09-16
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Superman
Parameterization Part 4: Handling Non-Uniform Data Distribution
This is the fourth post in the “Parameterization” series. In the previous post I wrote about parameter sniffing, and I...
2014-09-11 (first published: 2014-09-08)
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Parameterization Part 3: Parameter Sniffing
This is the third post in the “Parameterization” series. In the previous post I mentioned parameter sniffing. This is a...
2014-09-01
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Parameterization Part 2: Seven Ways to Execute Your Query
This is the second post in my series on parameterization. In the first post I wrote about plan caching and...
2014-08-28 (first published: 2014-08-25)
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Parameterization Part 1: Plan Caching
Many times, when I perform query tuning, the problem that causes the query to perform badly is related, one way...
2014-08-21 (first published: 2014-08-18)
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My Visit to WPC 2014
Last week I attended WPC. This is an annual event organized by Microsoft for its partners around the world. WPC...
2014-07-24
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My Visit to Redmond
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the EBC in Redmond. If you don’t know what EBC is, that’s...
2014-07-23
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Track Incomplete Statements
What about when statements are sitting in your server, uncompleted and not moving, just hogging resources? Use this script for...
2014-07-16
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Space Used by Database Files
Retrieve data about size and space used for all the files in the current database with this script.
Some tips on...
2014-06-24
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What I Love About SQL Server
Well, there are many things I love about SQL Server. Otherwise, I wouldn’t spend my whole career around it, would...
2014-06-16
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202 SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget: A Roundup
When I put together the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #202, I wasn't sure what...
A Last Minute Trip to the EU
By Steve Jones
My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer...
Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency
In Part 1, we saw how ‘Vamana’ represents vectors as nodes, connects them with...
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Question of the Day
The Disabled Index
I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
What is the result? See possible answers