If you work in the world of SQL Server you’ve almost certainly heard of dbatools. For those who haven’t, it’s an open source PowerShell module for automating literally hundreds...
2021-04-20 (first published: 2021-02-15)
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Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is one of the easiest ways of encrypting your data at rest. In my prevous post we looked at what TDE is and how it...
2021-04-12
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In this post we look at Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) in SQL Server. What it is - and how it works.
2021-04-07 (first published: 2021-03-29)
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Statistics are vitally important in allowing SQL Server to find the most efficient way to execute your queries. In this post we learn more about them, what they are...
2021-03-24 (first published: 2021-02-01)
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I talked a few posts ago about Automatic Sample Sizes for Statistics Updates. From SQL 2016 CU4 we've been able to override that. You can manually update a statistics...
2021-03-11 (first published: 2021-03-09)
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Looking at how SQL Server samples your data when doing auto-stats updates. Part of a series on understanding statistics, to help you achieve optimal performance of your queries on...
2021-03-02 (first published: 2021-02-24)
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Use trace flag 8666 to view the statistics objects that the optimizer used to generate your execution plan.
2021-03-01
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For most of us in the Northern Hemisphere the clocks go foward next month and we get to look forward to longer, sunnier evenings. This post is a reminder...
2021-02-17 (first published: 2021-02-10)
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Having up to date statistics is vital for getting the best performance out of your queries. Even though SQL Server automatically updates statistics in the background for you, you...
2021-02-16
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I’ve mentioned previously how not having up to date statistics can cause problems in query performance. This post looks at something called the Ascending Key Problem which can badly...
2021-02-09
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By DataOnWheels
For anyone who read the title of this and immediately thought, “Oh no, I...
By Kevin3NF
TLDR: Nope. Keep on doing your full backups. Make sure that any databases you...
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Hello everyone! We have a small group of users (4) using MS Access 2000...
The picture is showing the results that I used sp_spaceused for OldTable and NewTable,...
I have had a server crash and although I was able to recover the...
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