The only sure way to do forecasting is to measure today, measure next week (or have measured last week), and do some calculations. Redgate Monitor (yes, full disclosure,...

The only sure way to do forecasting is to measure today, measure next week (or have measured last week), and do some calculations. Redgate Monitor (yes, full disclosure, my employer)...

I know, we always want a short cut. I sure do. Let me solve the problem with zero to minimum effort so it's done right now. Easy peasy. I get...

Another 3 followup questions

1 . When do we see index size is greater than actual data size of the table?  is that because of creation of too many non-clustered...

Thank you Grant sir. All I can sense is, this has to be carefully dealt with a proper index performance tuner or consultant.

Just want to ask, is there any...

Still sounds like a monitoring solution looking at stuff, especially since it's against every database.

Turn on query monitoring (Extended Events first, Query Store second, DMVs third, ignore everything else) and see what queries are being run on the system. Done.

Nope. That information isn't provided from AWS. You get what they give you, and that's it. Sorry to be the bearer of sad tidings. However, the information they do give...

TRUTH!

I'd start with the login. Which one is running the query? That'll give you a lot of information. It looks like a monitoring query. It might be SentryOne itself. If...

This is a tough process. First up, testing is your buddy. Plan to test your queries, a lot, before you just disable indexes willy nilly. Next, small changes. Only take...

This is a tough process. First up, testing is your buddy. Plan to test your queries, a lot, before you just disable indexes willy nilly. Next, small changes. Only take...

Are you getting more and more data? If so, that's the challenge (note, not a problem or an issue, just something you have to deal with). And yeah, it may...

Oooh, that's a good idea.

I truly hate hearing the term applied to me. I simply don't believe it. Can't. It's just not true. However, it does happen. And oh boy, you can see the...