In your situation, you need to be using UPDATE STATISTICS, not sp_update_stats. The latter is just a shortcut to performing the former. You can look at the code. All it...

Nesting functions, even inline functions, leads to all sorts of performance problems.

So, if we have to have linked queries (and eliminating these ought to be a goal), then we should at least push the filtering down to the linked servers. See...

Things like this destroy the possibility of performance enhancement

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March 28, 2018 at 4:30 am

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A view is nothing but a...

There are all sorts of mechanisms around something like this. Using the baseball example, I'd look to the database design to deal with this. You have a team. You have...

To fully answer what issues may be going on, getting the full plan is going to be the best bet.

To give you some general information, an index spool...

Best way to do this is to put your database code into source control. You can track it and version it that way. Further, once you start treating your database...

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