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...

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It looks like the usual has occurred and you have  a couple of good answers to your question. Never hesitate to ask follow-up questions. We like...

Your query is working. I tested it running this:

SELECT *
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail AS sod
WHERE sod.SalesOrderDetailID = 432;

And modifying the index to [IX_SalesOrderDetail_ProductID]. It worked fine.

So, the problem must...

Here's the bad news. You need both. If logically the UserName value is the business defined identifying value, you should have a unique constraint on it. This is what is...

The information is captured in system tables. You just have to query those and you're off and running. Take a look at sys.jobhistory. Then, to only get the longest one,...

@Grant: Can you provide me an example on how to do that using Query store or extended events or any article that you can point out that would help...

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Here are a bunch of examples from my blog of using Extended Events to answer various questions. This should provide you with a bunch of what you're asking. I'll...

Ah, interesting use of the tools. Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to do it. I'm not saying it can't be done, just that there's not a way I'm...

Really curious what the use case and need is though.

One is for SQL Server version 2016 and the other...