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Nov26

Task Manager – Confusing Story of CPU

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
CPU Threads, SQL CPU, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, Windows
1 Comment

Clients hired me to help with the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. We will talk about a very Confusing Story of CPU of Task Manager.

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Nov25

SQL SERVER – ColumnStore Index Displaying Actual Number of Rows To Zero

Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
ColumnStore Index, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server
No Comments

I had a very interesting conversation with their Senior DBA about ColumnStore Index Displaying Actual Number of Rows To Zero. 

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Nov24

How to Disable Batch Mode in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #252

Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
Batch Mode, ColumnStore Index, SQL Index, SQL Performance, SQL Scripts, SQL Server
4 Comments

My immediate reaction was why would you disable batch mode in SQL Server when it is really is an awesome feature for performance

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Nov23

SQL SERVER Management Studio – Enable Statistics Time and IO for Every Query

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Statistics, SSMS
1 Comment

I was asked a very interesting question about statistics TIME and IO for SQL Server Management Studio, let us discuss that in today’s blog post.

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Nov22

SQL SERVER – Recompile Stored Procedures Two Easy Ways

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Stored Procedure
2 Comments

At that point, I realized that I should have a blog post that explains to easy way to recompile stored procedures. Today, we will learn about 2 methods.

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Nov21

SQL SERVER – Batch Mode in RowStore – Performance Comparison

Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Batch Mode, ColumnStore Index, Compatibility Level, Execution Plan, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server 2019
1 Comment

Let us see in this blog post the performance comparison between Batch Mode and Row Mode. The most asked question was about the Performance difference.

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Nov20

SQL SERVER – Improving Deployment Performance by SQL Server Monitoring

Pinal Dave
SQL
Redgate
No Comments

Changing trends in the industry where people are now accepting that we can improve deployment performance if we apply proper SQL Server Monitoring. 

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SQL SERVER – Technical Articles – Performance Optimizations for the XML Data Type in SQL Server 2005

SQL SERVER - Find Current Location of Data and Log File of All the Database samplexml1

SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Creating XML File Using T-SQL

SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Reading XML File Using T-SQL

SQL SERVER – Restore Master Database – An Easy Solution

SQL SERVER – Reasons to Backup Master Database – Why Should Master Database Backedup

SQL SERVER - Find Current Location of Data and Log File of All the Database ss2016-config-800x429

SQL SERVER – List All Server Wide Configurations Values

SQL SERVER – Find Current Location of Data and Log File of All the Database

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Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 22 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.

Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 104 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.

Pinal is an experienced and dedicated professional with a deep commitment to flawless customer service. If you need help with any SQL Server Performance Tuning Issues, please feel free to reach out at pinal@sqlauthority.com.

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