Query Store, Plan Forcing and Table Variables
This weekend I was in Stockholm in Sweden, talking Query Store and plan forcing with Steinar Anderson, when he mentioned the problems he had while forcing plans that had...
The...
2019-05-06
This weekend I was in Stockholm in Sweden, talking Query Store and plan forcing with Steinar Anderson, when he mentioned the problems he had while forcing plans that had...
The...
2019-05-06
Today I begin a week-long series where I will be discussing various SQL Server Monitoring Tools. My primary job is to help people with my consulting workshop Comprehensive Database...
2019-04-26
A Long Way From Home Most scripts (even ones I’ve worked on!) that look at the plan cache, have had…
2019-04-26
I was asked the other day why a customer was having performance issues on a table. A simple SELECT that ... Continue reading
The post Yes, pulling just the data...
2019-04-24
Oh, Bother Sometimes, you only wanna work on one thing. Other times, you only wanna work on something if it’s…
2019-04-24
Date Debate Searching dates is a common enough task. There are, of course, good and bad ways to do this.…
2019-04-22
You’ve got one SQL Server hosting a bunch of databases, and performance is bad. Which database should you focus on first? Here are a few ways you can pick...
2019-04-17
Somewhere along the way in your career, you were told that: Index seeks are quick, lightweight operations Table scans are ugly, slow operations And ever since, you’ve kept an...
2019-04-16
Look, I’m telling you this as a friend. Seriously, it’s time to let go of your batch updates. It’s not a...
2019-04-16
Brent Ozar has been digging deep into new functionality in SQL Server 2019: In the Froid white paper, Microsoft talked about how they were working on fixing the function...
2019-04-15
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
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Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers