But do NOT DO THIS AS A SCALAR UDF IN SQL SERVER!!! They are HORRIBLY BAD!!!!!!!!!

If you cannot simply inline the code into your TSQL (best), then do this...

Luis Cazares (6/14/2016)

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Change your UNION to a UNION ALL, unless you want to eliminate duplicates.

UNION will need to add a sort which is expensive.

If your queries have adequate indexes, I'd...

AFAIK you will need to write your own file processor either in TSQL or externally with the scripting language of your choice. I would do it with the latter.

What you are missing is that you should never, EVER use maintenance plans!! 🙂

Ola.Hallengren.com. Every single client I ever visit starts using the awesomeness found there.

Glenn Berry SQL Diagnostic Scripts has some good stuff. IIRC the SQL Server Internals books may have a useful section too.

I think there was a tool someone wrote to show...

gxdatareal (6/13/2016)

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HELLO

I Have a serious problem

I am trying to run an sql query (uodate)

UPDATE DBO. GENERIC

SET TITLE= B.TITLE

FROM DBO. GENERIC AS A with (nolock)

INNER JOIN DBO. DISTINCT AS...

tomd-982312 (6/9/2016)

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Luis Cazares (6/8/2016)

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For a fast sequential read of a table to move data from one system to another, you could also use SSIS.

You're doing ETL work, use the ETL...

1)...

Mick Opalak (6/8/2016)

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Unfortunately we are seeing the exact opposite. We accidentally altered our index maintenance job so since late March we've only been defragging about 20% of our indices....

I have done what you did (in doing no index mx and allowing the system to come to something approaching a "steady state fill factor" with just a couple of...

Jonathan Kehayias did a benchmark that showed that SSDs were actually slower at random IO than sequential. But the difference is pretty small.

But there are other reasons to be...

tomd-982312 (6/8/2016)

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Guys, this topic is not about efficiency, or RBAR, or order by, or dbms_output.put_line().

I'm just trying to find simple code that reads sequentially row by row from table. It's...

1) Did you do what I said about sp_whoisactive??

2) How much memory do you have on this sql server? IIRC XML can be a MASSIVE consumer of memory and if...

crcoracle (6/7/2016)

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Hi,

May be the picture is confusing. The "mirror" is made by SQL Server AG (not by the SAN)

As far as I know, I'm using 3 nodes, but there is...

Believe it or not, prior to SQL Server 2012 and it's enhanced Windowing Function support the most efficient way to do running-total style calculations in SQL Server is to use...