SYS.PARTITIONS: Better Than X-Ray Vision
Originally posted 2011-09-09 21:27:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Over the past few months, I’ve been doing a lot of work...
2013-11-19 (first published: 2013-11-09)
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2013-11-08 (first published: 2013-11-04)
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Upgrading Admin Queries
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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