If you read the documentation on NEWSEQUENTIALID, you'll see that it says that each GUID generated is greater than the previous GUID (until you get a reboot), but not that...

Yeah, seems reasonable. On my dev machine I just installed it right over the top of 2012 with no issues. Just so you know.

SQLRNNR (5/16/2014)

Grant Fritchey (5/16/2014)

To address the scan, you need to either have a filter of some kind to reduce the amount of data, or fix the conversion so that the...

17 indexes is not a small amount. That alone will negatively impact inserts and updates. So you should make sure you need all those indexes.

To address the scan, you need...

A CTE mostly just addresses formatting in this case. It's not going to change performance. You still have to address the things that I brought up or you'll just see...

Yes, you look at the foreign key relationships.

Ed Wagner (5/15/2014)

You know, I think that was a...

Oh, sounds like what we used to call the Logical Modeling Team. And **** NO they weren't in charge of us! When I started at the company, the DBAs did...

In general, if you have the name Architect in your role, I would assume you're, at least potentially, a step up over the DBA. I filled that role (didn't have...

You've got a bunch of stuff that's going to lead to scans. Adding columns like this:

(prev_stat.BIZ_YEAR + prev_stat.BIZ_MONTH)

For a comparison will prevent statistics use and lead to scans. Functions on...

Glad you found the answer. I always go back to Microsoft for licensing questions. They're going to be the ones to enforce it, so you might as well find out...

Absolutely. Just go here to sign up for a free trial[/url]. If you have an MSDN license, you have up to $150 in credit you can play with in Azure.

Or upgrade to 2014.

According to MS, that column was added with 2012, so all you can do is left joins to the sys.dm_exec_requests.

Although, you might take a look at Adam...

If it's a one time thing, shrink it. One, two or three shrinks over the life of a database is no big deal. It's the people scheduling monthly, weekly, daily...

The good news is, you have full optimization, so the optimizer didn't time out leaving you with a junk plan. The bad news is, yikes.

I suspect you may have some...