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Missing from SSMS

SQL SERVER Agent Missing from SSMS

September 29, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SSMS

Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. Recently I had a very interesting experience where SQL SERVER Agent was Missing from SSMS.

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procedure definitions

SQL SERVER – Easiest Way to Copy All Stored Procedure Definitions

September 8, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Stored Procedure, SSMS

What is the easiest way to copy all stored procedure definitions for your database? Well, let us quickly learn that today.

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Time of Stored Procedure

SQL SERVER – Execution Time of Stored Procedures

August 11, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Execution Plan, SQL Statistics, SQL Stored Procedure, SSMS

How to measure the execution time of the stored procedure when it contains lots of statement inside of it. Let us learn today about Stored Procedures

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SQL Server – Single Scan for 3 Operations – COUNT(*) COUNT(1) SUM(1)

June 30, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Execution Plan, SQL Function, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SSMS

Today we will take the same conversation to the next level by discussing Single Scan for 3 Operations – COUNT(*) COUNT(1) SUM(1).

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Join Type

SQL SERVER – Change Join Type for Query

April 22, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Execution Plan, SQL Joins, SQL Operator, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SSMS

“Can I Change Join Type for Query?” I was recently asked this during  Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. Of course Yes!

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Index Scan

SQL SERVER – Top 1 and Index Scan

April 1, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
Execution Plan, SQL Index, SQL Operator, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Top, SSMS

Scans are not always bad they are there because they are needed. Let us see a very simple demonstration about Top 1 and Index Scan.

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backup files

Multiple Backup Copies Stripped – SQL in Sixty Seconds #156

February 19, 2021
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Backup, SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Restore, SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SSMS

Yesterday I blogged about SQL SERVER – Creating Multiple Backup Copies. I got an amazing response to the blog post. Let us learn it today.

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