Also, there is a 900 byte max key length that you have to stay within.

The simple fact is, it's going to be harder to index 500 characters than 50 because...

The single best method is to use Extended Events to capture the call. You can get a general set of data through rpc_completed or sql_batch_completed, or you can get individual...

You've been given a gift... when most folks write a presentation, they practice it at say 20 minutes but they've included so much good stuff that it will actually...

You've been given a gift... when most folks write a presentation, they practice it at say 20 minutes but they've included so much good stuff that it will actually...

Cause the vast majority of people out there are...

Alerts based on tags. I don't know the specifics of how to do this in Idera. Last time I evaled the product, it's alerts weren't that hot.

After tons and tons of testing with partitioning, I've completely tossed it as a performance enhancement tool. You can, in exceedingly rare circumstances, see actual performance enhancement through partition elimination...

Also, the biggest pain point in upgrades from pre-2014 to post-2014 is the new cardinality estimation engine. Most queries are unaffected. Some queries benefit. A few, suffer greatly. Plan to...

I agree, temporal tables are probably a better approach than CDC. I actually was sitting here trying to remember what they were called. Ha! Old age is fun.

As to history...

Oooh, this is a HUGE topic. Posting into comments in a thread is not going to cover everything. You need to look at a completely different database design. Here's an...

So, Q0: No. The issue is that all plans are estimated plans, so they won't show how many reads they did, just how many they think they might do. You...

So it's official. I've been accepted to Grace Hopper 2019 in Orlando to talk about "Imposter Syndrome: Are You Ready To Mentor". WHEEE... Now I have to overcome my...

Just talking to an AD expert yesterday after I presented a session on SQLi. Evidently there is a "golden ticket" in AD that unlocks the kingdom. Without that, the answer...

Not a problem. Happy to help. Hopefully we hear from a few others as well. There is some degree of disagreement on this topic.

So, I work for Redgate. Take anything else I say with that in mind.

The whole purpose for purchasing a monitoring tool is to buy time. We're literally not doing anything...