Statistics and Natively Compiled Procedures
Statistics are one of the single most important driving factors for the behavior of the query optimizer. The cardinality estimates...
2014-07-03 (first published: 2014-07-02)
2,194 reads
Grant Fritchey
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The Curse of Working With A DBA
I no more than finished my rant from last week than I started thinking about all the reasons why a...
2014-06-30
1,639 reads
The Utility of Execution Plans in Natively Compiled Procedures
I’m actually having problems identifying the utility of execution plans when working with natively compiled procedures. Or, put another way,...
2014-06-30 (first published: 2014-06-25)
1,910 reads
Passion
I know I tend to be overly passionate. It’s something that has gotten me into trouble in the past. It’s...
2014-06-26
854 reads
The Curse of Relational Databases
Let’s face it, none of Information Technology is easy. Oh yeah, there are those few geniuses that have an absolute...
2014-06-23 (first published: 2014-06-18)
5,165 reads
Natively Compiled Procedures and Bad Execution Plans
I’ve been exploring how natively compiled procedures are portrayed within execution plans. There have been two previous posts on the...
2014-06-17
1,353 reads
Differences In Native Compiled Procedures Execution Plans
All the wonderful functionality that in-memory tables and natively compiled procedures provide in SQL Server 2014 is pretty cool. But,...
2014-06-13 (first published: 2014-06-10)
2,057 reads
Speaker of the Month, June 2014
It’s not like I can’t find plenty of great presentations here in the US, but, while I was over in...
2014-06-06
751 reads
Natively Compiled Procedures and Execution Plans
The combination of in-memory tables and natively compiled procedures in SQL Server 2014 makes for some seriously screaming fast performance....
2014-06-05
1,361 reads
Add an Instance to SQL Server Azure Virtual Machine
How do you add an instance to your local SQL Server installation? You run the executable that you probably downloaded...
2014-05-19 (first published: 2014-05-13)
1,478 reads
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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