SQL Server: Performance Tuning :Understanding Set Statistics Time output
In the last post we have discussed about Set Statistics IO and how it will help us in the performance tuning....
2013-07-17
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SQL Server: All About SQL Server Statistics : Consolidated post
Statistics is the one of the important factor which helps the optimizer to choose the right execution plan.At the same time, many of us (so called DBA) will not...
2013-07-11
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SQL Server: All About SQL Server Statistics : Consolidated post
Statistics is the one of the important factor which helps the optimizer to choose the right execution plan.At the same...
2013-07-10
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SQL Server: Part 4 : All About SQL Server Statistics : Auto Update Statistics Threshold - Importance of Manual statistics maintenance
In the last post, we have discussed about the auto create and auto update property of the statistics. Do we...
2013-07-09 (first published: 2013-07-02)
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SQL Server: Part 5 : All About SQL Server Statistics : How to Detect outdated Statistics ?
In the last post, we have discussed about the auto update statistics threshold and concluded that auto updated statistics threshold are good enough to get optimal performance in some workload. In...
2013-07-09
29 reads
SQL Server: Part 5 : All About SQL Server Statistics : How to Detect outdated Statistics ?
In the last post, we have discussed about the auto update statistics threshold and concluded that auto updated statistics threshold are good...
2013-07-08
1,633 reads
SQL Server: Part 4 : All About SQL Server Statistics : Auto Update Statistics Threshold - Importance of Manual statistics maintenance
In the last post, we have discussed about the auto create and auto update property of the statistics. Do we really need to do manual statistics maintenance to keep...
2013-07-03
51 reads
SQL Server: Part 3 : All About SQL Server Statistics :Who Create and Manage the Statistics ? Role of Statistics in Performance Tuning
In the last posts, we have discussed about the histogram ,density vector and how SQL server use the statistics information in cardinality estimation. In this post let us discuss about how the...
2013-07-02
141 reads
SQL Server: Part 3 : All About SQL Server Statistics :Who Create and Manage the Statistics ? Role of Statistics in Performance Tuning
In the last posts, we have discussed about the histogram ,density vector and how SQL server use the statistics information...
2013-07-01
1,524 reads
SQL Server: Part 2 : All About SQL Server Statistics :Histogram
In the Part 1 about SQL server Statistics, we have discussed about density vector information stored in the the statistics. In...
2013-06-27
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I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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