“Can I Change Join Type for Query?” I was recently asked this during Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. Of course Yes!
SQL SERVER – Parallelism and Threads with No Work
One of my repeat clients asked me if a query goes to parallel do they use all the threads. We can have parallelism and thread with no work.
SQL SERVER – Top 1 and Index Scan
Scans are not always bad they are there because they are needed. Let us see a very simple demonstration about Top 1 and Index Scan.
SQL SERVER – Disable Adaptive Joins
My client sent me an interesting scenario where a query with adaptive join was performing badly. Let us learn how to disable adaptive joins.
SQL SERVER – Enable Adaptive Join
Let us learn how we can enable the adaptive join feature in SQL Server. I often discuss this during Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check.
SQL SERVER – Adaptive Threshold Rows
Today we are going to learn about what drives the decision to join Adaptive Join. Well, the answer is very simple – Adaptive Threshold Rows.
Find a Table in Execution Plan – SQL in Sixty Seconds #151
While all other methods work fine, let us see how easily we can find this in an SSMS. Let us learn how to find a table in an execution plan.