Make archiving old rows atomic with DELETE OUTPUT, preserved source identifiers, bounded batches, reconciliation, and a job time limit.
How to Measure Transactions Per Seconds in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #262
Question: How to Measure Transactions Per Seconds in SQL Server?
I have updated the script for this for Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check.
Connection Strings Explained: Encrypt, TrustServerCertificate and Timeouts
Explain TrustServerCertificate, encryption modes, connection and command timeouts, listener failover, and server-side connection evidence.
SQL Job Schedules: Read Every Schedule in Plain English
SQL job schedules are stored as codes, and even the built-in description shows a time such as 60000. This post builds four demo jobs with five schedules and decodes every one with a single query. It also shows shared schedules, disabled schedules and jobs with no schedule at all.
What are Different Methods to Know the Row Count of Table? – Interview Question of the Week #261
Question: What are Different Methods to Know the Row Count of Table? The answer to this question is very simple and many.
SQL SERVER – Heaps, Scans and RID Lookup
The question was do heaps are very bad and always force a table scan? Let us learn about RID Lookup, Heaps and table scan.
Capturing sp_WhoIsActive Snapshots to a Table Every Minute
Capture sp_WhoIsActive snapshots every minute, keep seven days, and query past blockers and long requests from a logging table.