On the surface, the goal of performance tuning a query seems simple enough. Essentially, we want our queries to run faster. This article looks at how the STATISTICS IO and STATISTICS TIME options can help us tune queries.
2001-06-12
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2001-06-11
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Anyone that has ever forgotten a WHERE clause in an UPDATE or DELETE syntax still has the bruises. Log Explorer 2.0 has a way of reversing your mistakes by peering into the transaction log and rolling back transactions. This, week Brian Knight reviews this product.
2001-06-11
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If you have Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, Pull subscribers can use the Windows Synchronization Manager (WSM) to synchronize with the publisher.
2001-06-11
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XP_FILEEXIST gives you the ability to find files and directories. Find out how else you can use it in this article.
2001-06-08
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A method for creating databases and other objects on the fly and distribute these objects to multiple servers.
2001-06-08
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This article by Neil Boyle examines techniques for speeding up your queries by writing better T-SQL.
2001-06-07
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Steve Jones reviews the premier DTS reference for SQL Server 2000.
2001-06-06
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This article discusses queries that involve more than one database server. For example, you can run a query that returns a joined recordset where some records come from a SQL Server™ database and others come from an AS/400 machine.
2001-06-06
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Differential backups are a new feature in SQL 7 that can speed up your recovery times when restoring from database and transaction log backups.
2001-06-05
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I’m hosting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at the 19th of December 2024, 6PM...
By Steve Jones
I looked at row_number() in a previous post. Now I want to build on...
Recently I received a cry for help over Teams. The issue was that an...
You can't handle the truth!! (about data integrity) A few good database administrators https://www.helpmasterpro.com/blog/a-few-good-database-administrators/...
I have installed Machine Learning with SQL 2022 Enterprise Edition and installed and configured...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item A Guide to SQL Security...
I have run this on SQL Server 2022 for the Sales database:
ALTER DATABASE Sales SET AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS ON (INCREMENTAL = ON)I then run this in the Sales database:
USE Sales GO CREATE STATISTICS CustomerStats1 ON dbo.Customer (CustomerKey, EmailAddress) WITH INCREMENTAL = OFFThe dbo.Customer table is partitioned. How are statistics created? See possible answers