You'll need to JOIN between Casting and Actor to get the actors. You'll want to GROUP BY a count of the actors from the Casting table for each movie. Then,...

All those are server resource measurements, which are interesting and can suggest if you have a problem. But, to quickly determine if things are running long (whether they're maxing out...

If you do some searches there are several scripts for monitoring for blocked processes that's one I'd set up. Timing is different on every environment though. I'd also suggest getting...

Databases exist in two places in Azure, in Azure Virtual Machines and in Microsoft Azure SQL Database (MASD). The VMs act exactly like physical boxes or VMs local to your...

ScottPletcher (8/15/2014)

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What is(are) the clustering column(s) on the table? You need to read each 1/4 of the table at a time using the appropriate clustering key range.

What are there...

None at all. If you're only temporarily moving them to 2005, I'd skip the update stats step there, but in general it can't hurt at all to have a fresh...

The issue is, there's no way within code or structure to speed up moving 1/4 of a 25 million row table. You are completely dependent on hardware because that will...

You're attempting to query 8.25 million records out of 25 million. It's going to scan the table to do this. Indexes won't help. You can get faster or more disks...

You can set up a virtual network that allows you to treat the VMs as if they were part of your on-premises servers. Then, you have lots of choices. You...

chrisn-585491 (8/11/2014)

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"There are a lot of people doing this kind of thing, over-stating their qualifications, plagiarizing blogs, posting garbage answers. Why is this one bothering you so much? "

Because it's...

Why are you worried about updating the statistics? They're going to get updated naturally by the internals process of SQL Server anyway. Some of those updates may be sampled, some...

It's vendor specific whether or not they actually support database restores as part of their snapshot mechanism. Some do, some don't. A test restore is the best mechanism to validate...

After you backup the system databases, get everything into source control. All the jobs can be scripted out, put that into source control. Your databases and their code & structures...

Multiple requests seems nuts. In fact, I prefer to let the developers just develop. You may think you need a table that looks like X, get part way into your...

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Wish I could remember what last year was like, I remember some nice days for '77 as I...