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Database Administration
Uncover SQL Server Missing Indexes
In this article, we look at a SQL Server Dynamic Management View (DMV) that helps find queries that trigger missing index recommendations.
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How to Delete Large Amounts of Data in Microsoft SQL Server
A short look at some of the options for deleting lots of data from a SQL Server table.
2024-10-07
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Cleaning Up Your Database
How many of us clean up our databases and is it worth it? Steve has a few thoughts.
2024-10-02
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SQL Index Rebuild vs Reorganize Comparison
This tip covers the differences and similarities between SQL Server index rebuild and index reorganize operations.
2024-09-30
2024-09-27
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Raising the Cost Threshold for Parallelism (CTFP) Affects SQL Server Missing Indexes
This article explores how raising the Cost Threshold for Parallelism (CTFP) affects missing index recommendations in SQL Server along with examples.
2024-09-25
2024-09-20
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Auditing SQL Server – Part 4 – Database Configuration Audit
This continues my series on auditing SQL Server. The fist parts covered discovery and documentation, server level hardware audits and SQL Server engine level audits. This section examines database configuration audits.
2024-09-18
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Question of the Day
DBCC CHECKDB Limits II
I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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