Possibly a dumb question but do you need those WHERE clauses?  If the data is the same, setting the value "10" to "10" is not going to hurt too badly...

I think I would approach this by using endnum+1 = LEAD(begnum,1).  This will help you determine if it is a gap or not; lets call this bitGAP.  You can use...

To confirm - it only happens on 1 of the 2 read-only secondary systems, correct?

If so, may not hurt to investigate any differences between the 2 systems.

Probably a shot in...

I was just reviewing what you had on your site and noticed a few mildly concerning things that may just need more clarification to me.

First, you say "Below is an...

To make the post a bit more clear, These are the links to the articles about the ebooks:

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/books/best-of-sqlservercentral-volumes-1-4

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/books/best-of-sqlservercentral-volume-5

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/books/best-of-sqlservercentral-volume-6

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/the-best-of-sqlservercentral-vol-7

All of these bring up articles about the ebooks, but appear to bring...

First, I should clarify I don't use AG's so my advice may be way out to left field, but I do not think it is bad advice.

Have you checked the...

Looking at those waits, the ones in hours are the ones I would be more concerned about!  If I am reading things right on that, the AVERAGE column is showing...

For that particular query (experts correct me if I am wrong), but I see 4 indexes being needed - 1 per table.  The query looks broken to me on that...

Any column in the SELECT result list that is NOT used in an aggregate (or windowing function) MUST be included in your GROUP BY UNLESS no aggregate operations are taking...

This forum, being called "SQL Server Central", is mostly focused around SQL Server.  The Powershell component of the forum is, for the most part, how to do stuff with SQL...

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by Mr. Brian Gale.

William, that was my thought as well.  But as you can see with my test scenario, adding nullable columns doesn't seem to affect table size until a fixed-width column is...

When you go to install the upgrade, it should have listed all of the applicable instances that it can be applied to.

If I had to venture a guess, the MAMUT...

I am not sure I understand the question... Are you asking about SQL Server 2019 (as is in the question) or about SQL Server 2019 Reporting Services (the topic)?

Or is...

If it is a single threaded application, having a 16 core, 32 thread processor isn't going to help too much.  If you have really good multi-core processing but poor single...

If SSMA is a single threaded application (likely), then it may stop responding while it is gathering information and doing calculations.  Also, all of the information is attempting to be...