What’s New in SQL Server 2019
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How to Think Like the SQL Server Engine: Should Columns Go In the Key or the Includes?
In our last episode, in between crab rangoons, I had you create either one of these two indexes:CREATE INDEX IX_LastAccessDate_Id_Includes ON dbo.Users(LastAccessDate, Id) INCLUDE (DisplayName, Age); GO CREATE INDEX IX_LastAccessDate_Id_DisplayName_Age …
Compare Estimated and Actual Query Plans and Related Metadata – Analyzing SQL Server Query Plans – Part 4
I recently released a Pluralsight Course Analyzing SQL Server Query Plans, and it is really doing great in terms of viewership and I have received some really great comments and feedback about this course. This week, I will be discussing different aspe …
Redistributing Data Across Files
There are lots of accidental DBAs out there that might not know how tables are distributed across files in a filegroup. It seems often that more inexperienced people get confused with files and filegroups and how SQL Server works to spread data across …
How Fiducia & GAD scaled with SQL Monitor
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How to Think Like the SQL Server Engine: Building Wider Indexes to Deal with Bad T-SQL
In our last episode, we were running into problems with these two queries:SELECT LastAccessDate, Id, DisplayName, Age FROM dbo.Users WHERE LastAccessDate BETWEEN ‘2018-08-31’ AND ‘2018-09-01’ ORDER BY LastAccessDate; SELECT LastAccessDate, Id, DisplayN …
Create Efficient Query Plans Using Query Store – Analyzing SQL Server Query Plans – Part 3
I recently released a Pluralsight Course Analyzing SQL Server Query Plans, and it is really doing great in terms of viewership and I have received some really great comments and feedback about this course. This week, I will be discussing different aspe …
Recover SQL Server Resource Database
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How to Think Like the SQL Server Engine: When Statistics Don’t Help
In our last episode, we saw how SQL Server estimates row count using statistics. Let’s write two slightly different versions of our query – this time, only looking for a single day’s worth of users – and see how its estimations …
SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for November 2019
This month, I have just done more minor formatting and documentation improvements, especially for SQL Server 2019.I have a T-SQL script that you can use to check whether your instance of SQL Server has been patched to mitigate against the Spectre/Meltd …
Checking To See If Intel Speed Shift Is Enabled
Back in 2015, as part of the Skylake architecture, Intel released a new processor feature called Intel Speed Shift. This is an improved version of Intel SpeedStep, which you may have heard of since it has been around much longer. Essentially, Speed Shi …
Identify Poorly Performing Query Plan Operators – Analyzing SQL Server Query Plans – Part 2
I recently released a Pluralsight Course Analyzing SQL Server Query Plans, and it is really doing great in terms of viewership and I have received some really great comments and feedback about this course. This week, I will be discussing different aspe …
Using Five Types of JOIN in MYSQL
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Managing Recursive Group on SSRS Reporting Services Reports
This article explains how to manage recursive queries on SSRS report. We will see how to: implement Tablix and DocumentMap. manage calculation and formulas offered by the SSRS layer format properly the report manage conditional formatting The final rep …
Set yourself up for success in 2020
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