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-- Create TableA
drop table if exists TableA 
drop table if exists TableB 
-- Create TableA
CREATE TABLE TableA (
    JoiningID...

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Jonathan AC Roberts.

And yet it's still absolutely stupid about certain "simple" things...  In the example below, this is NOT the right way to solve the given problem.  Even the note in...

It's faster to rebuild indexes offline.

You might also be able to get it to rebuild in parallel which will be faster: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/indexes/configure-parallel-index-operations?view=sql-server-ver16

But I think the question needs...

Is this what you are looking for?:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/showplan-logical-and-physical-operators-reference?view=sql-server-ver15

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• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Jonathan AC Roberts. Reason: deleted duplicate post

Why would you want to do it without a union and in...

It already is one query.

I'm not sure if this will fix it but the first thing I would try is to make sure the statistics have been updated:

UPDATE STATISTICS...

I'm not sure if this will fix it but the first thing I would try is to make sure the statistics have been updated:

UPDATE STATISTICS dbo.mytable WITH...

Is it just one query that is...

It's deferred name resolution.

You can create a procedure if the table does not exist but not if the table exists and the columns do not exist.

don't know what tool you are using to execute the above...

don't know what tool you are using to execute the above - but...

IF @DB1 = 'TestDB' USE TestDB
ELSE IF @DB1 = 'ProdDB'  USE ProdDB

To stop the table locking you could use a rowlock hint:

-- Ensure we are using row-level locking
SELECT @intID = (idPool + 1)
  FROM IdConfiguration...