Just so we're clear, CTFP = Cost Threshold for Parallelism.

And I agree. Changing it from the default value is a must. In addition to picking an arbitrary value (common practice...

I'll be there!!

I think that's how you have to do it there too. You can't simply upgrade the VM in place. It just doesn't work like that. Once you have a VM,...

If you're willing to do an in-place upgrade, it's really simple. Get the media for the Standard (or any other) edition on to the VM (how you do that is...

The principal use case would be extensive, many-to-many data structures. If you don't have that, you don't need to sweat it.

Sounds good then. As I said, a long time ago, if the tool can meet the RPO & RTO, I'm fine with it.

I know this is an old topic but we are using Cohesity 6.6. It now has SQL log backup and Point in time restores. So far I'm liking...

I think Eddie has it nailed.

However, if you really want the single most solid answers to licensing questions, I'd go to Microsoft, not the forums. After all, they always get...

You can output to the buffer as a target. However, that's not recommended. It puts more of a load on the system than output to a file. I prefer a...

More than one plan usually indicates different statistics distributions for the parameters involved in the query. Say, filtering on ID = 42 returns 10,000 rows and filtering on ID =...

Would some of these free tools be a starting point for someone unfamiliar troubleshooting ?

https://www.idera.com/productssolutions/freetools/

Other companies may have similar tools, and most will also offer free trials of...

To a degree, the difference between ON & WHERE, can be, but isn't entirely, syntactic sugar. However, what I say is, for clarity sake, put filter criteria in...

Grant, sorry to be going on about this.

But just to be clear, are you saying that if not for the fact that I'm working with a OUTER JOIN everything...

To a degree, the difference between ON & WHERE, can be, but isn't entirely, syntactic sugar. However, what I say is, for clarity sake, put filter criteria in the WHERE...

Ed has beat me to it.