Find Top 5 expensive Queries from a Write IO perspective
Top 5 expensive Queries from a Write IO perspective
2013-10-03 (first published: 2013-09-09)
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The Ultimate Index Lister (Non-Pivoted)
Lists details for all indexes on one or more tables / schemas, including row count and size. The non-pivot version also gives data type and other details for the columns.
2013-10-02 (first published: 2008-08-01)
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Find Top 5 expensive Queries from a Read IO perspective
The below written query helps us find the most expensive queries from a read IO perspective. The DMV that we have used in this script is sys.dm_exec_query_stats and the function that we have used is sys.dm_exec_sql_text.
2013-09-27 (first published: 2013-09-09)
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Determine if BACKUP COMPRESSION is available
This script will determine the SQL Server version and edition in order to find out if BACKUP COMPRESSION is available.
2013-09-25 (first published: 2013-09-10)
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Universal foreach aka sp_uforeach
This script is a universal foreach stored procedure. You can loop through everything with the help of if.
2013-09-24 (first published: 2013-09-10)
1,831 reads
Display Databases with X days without backup
Displays the information of the date of the latest backup that was done back to @daysago. When value is -0 it gives you all the backup information. The script also gives information on databases that never have been backed up.
2013-09-20 (first published: 2013-08-30)
1,594 reads
Primary Keys which are not Clustered Indexes in a database
Recently I was asked to find all the Primary keys that are not clustered Indexes in the database. I constructed the below script which will help us to locate the primary keys in the database which are not clustered index.
2013-09-18 (first published: 2013-09-04)
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2013-09-17 (first published: 2013-09-06)
1,473 reads
2013-09-12 (first published: 2013-02-08)
685 reads
2013-09-12 (first published: 2013-02-08)
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Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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