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SQL Monitor v11.1 now supports Azure SQL Managed Instances

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One of your SQL Server instance shows a major dip in performance or throughput, affecting all the user databases. You notice that the slow interludes coincide, as if orchestrated. On investigation, it appears that several transactions running over that period were using a lot of space in tempdb. However, which of them, if any, are causing the tempdb bottleneck, and why?

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Adding new column with DEFAULT

Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test;
CREATE TABLE #test (id INT)
INSERT INTO #test (id)
SELECT *
  FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs
;

ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0;
go
UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1
UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2

INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4)

SELECT COUNT(*)
  FROM #test AS t
 WHERE flag = 0
 

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