Thank you for your response, @Eirikur Eirikisson — truly honored to have you engage.

You are absolutely right: without comparing the execution plans side-by-side, especially for MAXDOP = 0 vs. 4,...

Thank you so much, @Brian Gale — I truly appreciate your thoughtful insights.

You’ve summarized the key takeaway better than I could. I completely agree: most of the time, query hints...

Hi again Anders,

Since you raised some great points, let me expand a bit technically here for everyone’s benefit — and ask a few questions that might help guide tuning.

You mentioned...

Hi Anders,

Thank you

My article was about covering multiple scenarios on maxdop.. I did not said to set maxdop to 1, But I told you should try to optimise your query...

Hi William,

Yes I accept a few inconsistency which I will get rectified. But the message and step is clear.

Below are

1. Probable inconsistency: Step 1 specified "we attach a new Azure-managed...

Hi MMartin1,

We need to seed the root node first.. This has come in screenshot but not in code.

INSERT INTO @Hierarchy (ID, ParentID, Name, Level)

SELECT ID, ParentID, Name, 1

FROM HierarchyBig

WHERE ParentID...

Thanks Rama

Solid catch with that CAST —Really sometimes it's the smallest tweak that makes all the difference.

Also it came as surprise  how just a VARCHAR(100) vs VARCHAR(50) can silently mess up...

Here’s how to fix the issue with SQL Server not finding the system databases:

1. Check if the D: drive still exists

• Open File Explorer and see if D: is there.

...

Given your scenario, your best bets are:

1. Merge Replication--> (Not real time, Inbuilt mechanisms to handle conflict and schema changes easy )
2. SQL Server Peer to Peer Replication(Near real time,...