Today we will have very simple learning about Building Date and Time with DATETIMEFROMPARTS(). We will build the DateTime using a function.
SQL SERVER – Lots of Runnable SPID – What Next?
Once we fixed this issue of bottlenecks, we ended up on a very different issue where we had lots of runnable SPID and CPU was still underutilizing.
SQL SERVER – How to Shrink tempDB Database?
In the email yesterday from the client who earlier hired me for performance tuning had a small question about how to shrink tempdb database.
SQL SERVER – Show Primary Key for a Single Table – sp_pkeys
Recently, one of my clients showed me a very cool trick to check Primary Key for a single table with the help of the system stored procedure sp_pkeys.
SQL SERVER – Power Options, Power Plans and Database Performance
After a careful investigation into their system, we learned that this issue was with Power Options. Let us learn about that in this blog post.
SQL SERVER – Detecting CPU Pressure with Wait Statistics
I eventually expressed them it is possible to detect CPU pressure with Wait Statistics. We explained to them my method during the Health Check.
How to Skip Top N Rows in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #237
Question: How to skip top N Rows in SQL Server and retrieve the rest of the rows? Answer: I had asked the above question in one of the interviews last week.
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