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Query Store Data Cleanup

Microsoft supplies quite a few knobs to control how Query Store performs data cleanup. You can set your cleanup various ways, and, they interact. Let’s talk about how and...

2023-02-22 (first published: )

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Weaponizing Query Store

I may have occasionally talked about the importance of Query Store, but today I want to emphasize just how much Microsoft is weaponizing query store. Of course, I don’t...

2022-10-31

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A Big PK

In SQL Server 2025, how many columns can be included in a Primary  Key constraint?

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