My opinion - missing indexes report is only useful if you know the usage counts for those missing indexes AND the performance gain/hit by creating it.

For example, if you look...

Looking at this, it looks like a homework assignment, so I am not about to just give the answer in TSQL format, but I will try to lead you to...

My advice - reach out to Microsoft support.  You pay for their support and those types of errors are things that should be covered by support.

The link you provided indicates...

My first question on this is - do you need to remove the subquery?.  Is it performing badly?  At what point will it perform "good enough"?  Basically, do you need...

I think I am a bit confused by the question.  My understanding of the "Generate Scripts" button is that it is used when performing an administrative related task and you...

The approach we take at our workplace is that service accounts do not have password expiration in place unless we believe the account has been compromised.  The service accounts also...

What I would do is restore live to a dev environment.  Once things are on the development environment, run the stored procedure a few times as is so you can...

HAHAHA... that is the running gag in the office actually!  But the data in that database is critical to the company until the product goes EOL, yet it is running...

@ZZartin - that makes perfect sense.  I do agree that the "urgent" fixes can go live without prior approval or code review, but we DO still do a post-release code...

I do not have the actual numbers but the scenario was that an application (outside my department) was updated which took down production.  With production being down (the entire production...

I partially agree with you ZZartin.

I think there is no "one size fits all" solution, but I would also argue that with web-based content changes should be handled by the...

While I do agree that having the code go live quickly to fix a problem is nice, what if things go wrong?  What if that code release halts production and...

I am happy to help.  I do recommend you look into truth tables.  They can be very helpful when working with logic like this.  It is VERY easy to think...

Just saw your reply there skeleton567 and thought I'd reply too as our process has changed a bit as we changed managers.  Now, the process is still that it code...

Got an email from Degreed.com giving me recommendations for virtual training and … well, apparently there are urgent SQL courses I need to take today and ...

Well, what do...