In the year 2017 just for an experiment, I decided to start a SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop. I had no idea, that I will be the biggest and most popular service delivered by SQLAuthority.com. Since the year 2017, I have been delivering one or two workshops every week.
How to Create an Empty Table and Fool Optimizer to Believe It Contains Data? – Interview Question of the Week #204
Question: How to Create an Empty Table and Fool Optimizer to Believe It Contains Data?
Answer: Before I answer this question, I must acknowledge that I have never heard this question in my 20 years career before and I must ask you back, where do you come up with these kinds of questions.
Does Sort Order in Index Column Matters for Performance? – Interview Question of the Week #199
Question: Does Sort Order in Index Column Matters for Performance?
Answer: Wow, it has been a long time since I have heard this question and the matter of fact, I have never blogged about this subject on this blog. I have received this question during my recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check.
Do Index Reorganization Update Statistics? – Interview Question of the Week #196
Question: Do Index Reorganization Update Statistics?
Answer: No. Index Reorganization does not update Statistics of your database.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Arithmetic Overflow Error in Object Execution Statistics Report in Management Studio
Many times, there are unforeseen conditions and few developers can’t predict which writing the code of a product. This is the reason we have bugs in the products and we all have job to do. One of my clients was not able to run one of the inbuilt reports which come with SQL Server Management Studio. The report name was Object Execution Statistics. As per them, this report was running fine until last week and it had suddenly stopped working. They wanted some idea this as it was not a show stopper for them. When they launch the report, they see below error
How to Drop All the User Created Statistics by SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #158
Question: How to Drop All the User Created Statistics by SQL Server?
How to Enable Auto Update Statistics and Auto Create Statistics with T-SQL – Interview Question of the Week #108
Question: How to Enable Auto Update Statistics and Auto Create Statistics? Let us learn how we can fix that in today’s blog post.