DMV Comparison for SQL Server 2019 vs Azure SQL Database
What DMVs were added to Azure SQL Databases, and which DMVs are missing from Azure SQL Databases but still exist on SQL Server 2019 or other versions?
2025-06-02
DMVs
2020-01-21
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2020-01-14
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2019-12-30
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2019-12-23
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DMV’s for the Beginner
I give performance presentations at many different events to all levels of SQL Server professionals. Over time I’ve noticed that some DBAs and developers have never looked at the...
The...
2019-05-15
Find Top 5 expensive Queries from a Write IO perspective
Top 5 expensive Queries from a Write IO perspective
2013-10-03 (first published: 2013-09-09)
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Find Top 5 expensive Queries from a Read IO perspective
The below written query helps us find the most expensive queries from a read IO perspective. The DMV that we have used in this script is sys.dm_exec_query_stats and the function that we have used is sys.dm_exec_sql_text.
2013-09-27 (first published: 2013-09-09)
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Getting the Schema for Tables
What happens when I run this on SQL Server 2022 in the AdventureWorks2022 database?
SELECT OBJECT_DEFINITION (OBJECT_ID(N'Person.Person')) AS [Object Definition]; GOSee possible answers