Custom Statistics Distributions in SQL Server 2022
You can create custom statistics distributions, sampling, and histograms in SQL Server 2022 with a new trace flag
You can create custom statistics distributions, sampling, and histograms in SQL Server 2022 with a new trace flag
In this article, we look at how you might go about choosing whether to use SSIS or ADF for your next ETL/ELT project.
Database Mirroring comes back to SQL, at least to Azure SQL Database with Fabric as the destination. Read a few of Steve's thoughts on this feature.
Many of us have a journey, either to SQL Server, or in today's world of many databases, perhaps away from SQL Server. Steve looks at his, and another's, journies.
An interesting question came in on PollGab. DBAmusing asked: If a query takes 5-7s to calculate the execution plan (then executes <500ms) if multiple SPIDS all submit that query (different param values) when there’s no plan at start, does each SPID calc the execution plan, one after the other after waiting for the prior SPID to finish?
Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a lightweight IDE built on Visual Studio Code. I've written a few articles on how the tool works, and this one continues the series. In this article, I want to look at the server and database dashboards and how you can customize them. Another article will cover the Database dashboards. […]
Recently Microsoft released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v20.0, which is a major release of the primary tool that many of us use to work with SQL Server. Over the last few years, the tools team at Microsoft has worked to separate the tools from the various editions, giving us separate SSMS downloads. There have […]
In this article, learn how you can manage files and folders for both full and incremental loading situations.
Managing costs in the cloud is something many companies are concerned about. Today Steve thinks that technical people will bear more responsibility for this in the future.
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Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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