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Dec6

SQL SERVER – Wrap on Series of Temporary Statistics

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Statistics
No Comments
This is the final post in the series of the Temporary Statistics. I have previously written about this subject in a few posts. I have received quite a few questions about this series so I decided to include all the questions in this one blog post. Before you read this…
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Dec5

SQL SERVER – Finding Frequently Running Query and Elapsed Time – Notes from the Field #005

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Notes from the Field, SQL Backup and Restore
3 Comments
[Note from Pinal]: This is a fifth episode of Notes from the Field series. What happens when your server performs badly. The very first reaction is identifying what is running on the server. Once you identify what is running on the server we want to identify two of the most…
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Dec4

SQL SERVER – Scripting Statistics for Read-Only Database and Making it Permanent

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Statistics
1 Comment
This is a follow up blog post to my earlier blog posts about statistics for Read-Only Database. Please read the following blog post in this series to get further idea about this subject: SQL SERVER – Statistics for Read-Only Database are in TempDB SQL SERVER – How to Script Statistics…
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Dec3

Weekend Project – Connect your Database and Automatically Generate a Fully Customized Back-office Interface

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Office
3 Comments
Note: This blog post is based on the backand.com. I accidently landed on this site a few days ago and after browsing a bit around, I found this very interesting. I encourage all of you to feel the same as what I experienced. Just like me you can also connect…
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Dec2

SQL SERVER – Location of Statistics Before and After Database is Marked as a Read-Only

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Statistics
1 Comment
Earlier last week I wrote a blog post about Statistics for Read-Only Database are in TempDB, I received a very interesting comment from Ayman El-Ghazali on the same blog post. Let me reproduce the same comment over here. “Nice post. What if you create a database, create some statistics in…
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Dec1

SQL SERVER – Download SQL Server 2014 CTP2 and Related Downloads

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
CTP, SQL Download
3 Comments
SQL Server 2014 CTP2 was announced quite a while ago. I still see very few people working on it or writing about it. There can be many reasons for not attempting to start with SQL Server 2014 but the reality is that it is coming in the next few months…
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Nov30

SQL SERVER – How to Script Statistics from SSMS? – Scripting Statistics is Disabled in SSMS

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Statistics
3 Comments
Here is a very interesting question, I have received after reading yesterday’s blog post SQL SERVER – Statistics for Read-Only Database are in TempDB. “Pinal, I like your blog post. I recently tried to create statistics with the help of SSMS but I was not successful. Everytime when I go to…
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SQL SERVER – FIX – The term ‘Invoke-Sqlcmd’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

SQL SERVER – SSMS Trick – Generating CSV file using Management Studio

SQL SERVER - Proof of Concepts with Windows Azure - Notes from the Field #056 model-restoring-01-800x155

SQL SERVER – FIX – The database ‘model’ is marked RESTORING and is in a state that does not allow recovery to be run

SQL SERVER – Maintenance Plan – Maintenance Cleanup Task not Deleting Files

SQL SERVER – Inside Temp Table Object Creation

SQL SERVER – Proof of Concepts with Windows Azure – Notes from the Field #056

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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 100 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.

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