I thought just LOOKING at Azure cost money! @=)

Thanks, Everyone. Sorry for the slow response. I've been slammed with last moment of the year work.

Steve, even Microsoft stuff has to go through a testing / peep process here....

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So to clarify a few things, I used sp_who2 as an example anyone could do. What is really happening is we are logging trace data on blocking events and long-running...

So on a whim (because health insurance is going to make me take a paycut next year even if I get a raise), I started checking out salary info for...

I'm a little late to the party, but I have plenty of horror stories about nested views. Mostly for the reasons Jo mentions but also troubleshooting problems is a major...

So I'm a big fan of SARGability, which means I would take Scott's version and do it with a CTE.

WITH JobTypes AS (SELECT JobID, MAX(CASE WHEN TaskName...

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Now watching Black Arts # 3 and I just have to ask..

Jeff, where do we get your f'n Tally Function. @=) (j/k).

But on a serious note, do you have that...

Wow. Just ... WOW. Watched the 1.2. Now going to watch 3.

Thanks, Jeff.

So I am doing some major learning today. And here I thought I could take it easy on the week of Turkeys! @=)

Thank you both. I have already forwarded the...

Oh, and can I get a favor? Can everyone to update their posts with the proper spelling of my name? Brandie.

Jeff, thank you for that information. I will research.

So we are using the Hallogren solution for index maintenace and yes, it involves reorgs. I removed reorgs from the servers I'm...

Jo, I have already read through both links you have provided in this chat. I am looking for white papers beyond this information.

EDIT: The application team member was very specific...

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Stop rebuilding indexes.

Microsoft's documentation states:

Index maintenance decisions should be made after considering multiple factors in the specific context of each workload, including the resource cost of maintenance. They should...

Thank you, everyone, for your input.

Now would a high-volume OLTP (lots of daily inserts or deletes or both) make a difference in your opinion?