SQL Server: Performance Tuning :Understanding Set Statistics IO output
Performance tuning is one of the important task of DBA. Many times people comes to us with different types of...
2013-07-24 (first published: 2013-07-16)
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PracticalSQLDba
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
970 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SQL Server: Part 5 : All About SQL Server Statistics : How to Detect outdated Statistics ?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 enough to get optimal performance in some workload. In...
2013-07-09
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SQL Server: Part 5 : All About SQL Server Statistics : How to Detect outdated Statistics ?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...
2013-07-08
1,631 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
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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 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
139 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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UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
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B: 
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