You have 15 rows that got expanded to 24 and you say you have 30 million original rows, which would be expanded to 48 million rows according the 24/15 ratio...

All,

Thank you for your replies and suggestions. Sorry I haven't been back to this topic, I've had some other unplanned things to sort out. When I get back to...

Step 1 would be to stop doing the re-indexing.  Chances are that you're actually causing more damage than you're fixing especially if your using REORGANIZE or the old supposed 5/30...

I read a wonderful book "A man called Ove" filmed as "A man called Otto" starring Tom Hanks.  Read the book.  Ove is the GOAT of cranky curmudgeons.  The...

I'm not as old as you are, Rick, but Roger that and ditto that. 😀

I also download at least the latest version of the "ACE" driver/providers so that I don't need to go anywhere near SSIS just to import a spreadsheet.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54920&irgwc=1

See the following for the list of supported Trace Flags.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/database-console-commands/dbcc-traceon-trace-flags-transact-sql

1118 (No longer required but I used to have it on server wide.  I have the equivalent turned on in every...

Why on Earth would you use PoSh to do this?  You have the data in a table already.

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/convert-unix-timestamps-to-date-times-in-sql-server-part1

I saw that and I kept asking myself where the heck the link was.  I have the "nightlight...

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Further, because we’re aging, we’re not ready to embrace all the wonderful new technologies that are clearly superior in every possible way.

I know I responded...

p.s. Read the article at the first link in my signature line below for how to post some readily consumable test data.  It'll help you get a coded answer instead...

No, I won't be limiting the TicketOpenDate for the query.  I may add a month filter to limit TicketOpenDate at a later time.  The initial query will look at...

Yeah, we do index rebuilds quite often but I am not 100% sure. but definitely that could be one of the reasons.

Jeff, I got your point. Could you please...

My two thoughts on things like this continue to be...

1. Change is inevitable.  Change for the better is not.
2. If you want to learn something totally new, then try learning...

Thanks for the article, John.  I'd like to do an experiment with another method.  Can you identify the 3rd party link for where to get the source CSVs from, please?