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Illustrated cover: Temp Table Logging

SQL SERVER – Regular Table or Temp Table – TempDB Logging Explained

September 20, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL TempDB, Temp Table, Transaction Log

After the blog posts about temp and regular table, I have received questions about it hence I am writing this blog post about TempDB Logging.

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SQL SERVER – Regular Table or Temp Table – A Quick Performance Comparison

September 19, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
ETL, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, Temp Table

For a data load, which is faster: a regular table or temp table? My client asked, and I answered with proof and a working demo you can run yourself.

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SQL SERVER – Check for Update in SSMS

September 18, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Cumulative Update, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio

How to check for an update in SSMS depends on the installed generation. My fintech-customer walkthrough showed SSMS 18 settings.

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SQL SERVER – Brief Note About RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_QUERY_COMPILE Wait Type Resource

September 17, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Memory, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Wait Stats

Today we will see Brief Note About RESOURCE_SEMAPHORE_QUERY_COMPILE Wait Type resource. I wrote a blog post about Enable Lock Pages in Memory LPIM.

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How to List All DML Triggers Created or Modified in the Last N Days in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #242

September 15, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Trigger

List all DML triggers created or modified in the last N days in SQL Server, and why modify_date moves when nobody edited the code.

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completion time

SQL SERVER Management Studio – Completion Time in Messages

September 10, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio

When the queries end, we know how long the query ran from the duration of the query but we never know their completion time. 

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Tables Containing a Column: Search by Name in SQL Server

September 9, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Column, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL System Table

To find tables containing a column, search sys.columns by name instead of opening tables one by one. This post searches one database, then every database on the server, and shows why an underscore in the pattern needs brackets. It also compares the data types of related columns.

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