[Video] Office Hours with a Special Guest: Count Distinct


I was busy, so I asked a friend to fill in for me and answer your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. He did a pretty good job:

 

Here’s what we covered:

00:00 Start 00:52 Confused: Who uses differential backups, really? I don’t get the point. 02:20 Chris: Are third-party tools a necessity or a luxury for managing SQL Server? 03:26 SwissDBA: Statistics can only store 8kb of data, but often it would useful it it could store more info about that table. Can we make stats bigger and would this be a good idea to do?