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Plan Properties Window: Where the Useful Numbers Hide

April 15, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Execution Plan, Maintenance Plan, SQL Server

The execution plan picture only shows the shape. The properties window shows what really happened, and I walk through it on a tiny example.

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Finding the Plan That Changed: Query Store Plan History

January 7, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Execution Plan, Maintenance Plan, Query Store

Read Query Store plan history, compare duration by interval, find plan changes, and review a temporary force with an exit plan.

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Do Index Reorganization Update Statistics? – Interview Question of the Week #196

October 21, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
Maintenance Plan, SQL Index, SQL Performance, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Statistics

Question: Do Index Reorganization Update Statistics?

Answer: No. Index Reorganization does not update Statistics of your database.

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SQL SERVER – Unable to Run Maintenance Plan. Error: Integration Services Evaluation Period has Expired

June 6, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Maintenance Plan, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SSIS

A client’s maintenance plan failed with Integration Services evaluation period has expired in the job history. Here is why it happened and the fix.

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SQL SERVER – Maintenance Plan Error: Failed to Acquire Connection “Local Server Connection”.

May 22, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Computer Network, Maintenance Plan, SQL Connection, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

None of the maintenance plans worked, though the jobs ran fine. The error was failed to acquire connection “Local server connection”. Here is why.

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SQL SERVER – The SaveToSQLServer Method Has Encountered OLE DB Error Code 0x80004005

December 27, 2017
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Computer Network, Maintenance Plan, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

While saving maintenance plan on my lab server, I encountered below error in SQL Server Management Studio. Let us see how to solve the error related to OLE DB Error. 

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SQL SERVER - Execution Failed. See the Maintenance Plan and SQL Server Agent Job History Logs for Details

SQL SERVER – Execution Failed. See the Maintenance Plan and SQL Server Agent Job History Logs for Details

December 1, 2017
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Maintenance Plan, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

My client ran a new Maintenance plan for full and log backups and it failed at once. The reason was two subplans in one plan. Here is how to run them.

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