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Outdated Statistics

Find Outdated Statistics – SQL in Sixty Seconds #137

October 22, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Statistics

Is it possible that your statistics are many years old but still are valid? It is difficult to find Outdated Statistics is not as easy as it seems.

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what is edge

What is EDGE in SQL Server Execution Plan? – Interview Question of the Week #298

October 18, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
Execution Plan, SQL Performance, SQL Server Management Studio, SSMS

Question: What is EDGE in SQL Server Execution Plan?

Answer: It is the arrow or the line which goes from one operator to another operator.

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Deleted Rows

How to Capture Deleted Rows Without Trigger? – Interview Question of the Week #297

October 11, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
SQL Delete, SQL Performance, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Trigger

Question: How to Capture Deleted Rows Without Trigger?
Answer: I was recently asked by my client during the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check.

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priority boost

Priority Boost and Performance – SQL in Sixty Seconds #131

October 8, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Server Configuration

Enabling Priority Boost does not mean that you get performance from your SQL Server. It may be quite opposite. SQL in Sixty Seconds.

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replace STAR

SSMS Efficiency – Replace STAR – SQL in Sixty Seconds #130

October 7, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SSMS

You might have heard that SELECT * is bad for queries performance. Let us learn in today’s video how we can replace STAR (*) by column name.

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Change Database

How to Change Database File Size? – Interview Question of the Week #296

October 4, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
Shrinking Database, SQL Performance, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC

Question: How to Change Database File Size?

Answer: By Shrinking the files. Now, many have a negative opinion about Shrinkfile.

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nested transaction

Nested Transactions are Myth – SQL in Sixty Seconds #125

September 25, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Performance, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Transactions

Many sent me an email that they want to know more about the nested transactions. Let us learn about them in today’s blog post. 

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