2015-11-19
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Execution Plans
2015-11-13
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2015-05-28
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2015-05-13
1,453 reads
2015-02-11
1,914 reads
Why Developers Need to Understand Execution Plans
If you can examine and understand execution plans, you can achieve better understanding of the database system and you will write better database code. Grant Fritchey shows you how.
2015-01-28
9,282 reads
2014-12-24
1,531 reads
A Spectacular Case of 100% CPU Caused by Online Reindexing
An investigation of a serious performance issue during online re-indexing on a production server leads us to
interesting discoveries and solutions.
2019-10-08 (first published: 2014-12-11)
13,937 reads
Differences In Native Compiled Procedures Execution Plans
All the wonderful functionality that in-memory tables and natively compiled procedures provide in SQL Server 2014 is pretty cool. But, changes to core of the engine results in changes in things that we may have developed a level of comfort with. Grant Fritchey explains.
2014-06-24
4,137 reads
Understanding Graphical Execution Plans - Part 3: Analyzing the Plan
Learn how to examine and read a SQL Server execution plan in this article. This is the third part of a short series from Darren White that examines execution plans and imparts the basics on an important skill for DBA's and SQL developers alike.
2016-01-08 (first published: 2014-02-25)
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Blogs
T-SQLTuesday 204: Are blogs still relevant?
This month’s blogging party is hosted by Jeff Ianucci – his challenge is to...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? I Think They Still Are.
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Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
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Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers