While preparing for my SQL Saturday Salt Lake City presentation, Climbing the B-Tree, I ran into one of the “word of mouth” facts that the first column of an index should be highly selective, i.e., it should only point to one or a few rows. This is not always the case and I’ll show you […]
2023-01-02 (first published: 2020-09-16)
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In the last year I’ve published articles on indexes to include Indexes: When Column Selectivity Is Not Always A Requirement – SQLServerCentral and Query Optimizer Suggests Wrong Index and Query Plan -- Why? – SQLServerCentral. This article is a continuation of just how the optimizer interacts with the index wizard. We’ve all heard and read […]
2021-07-07
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A good example where the Query optimizer picks the wrong query plan and suggested index.
2021-02-25
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Continued analysis of index architecture with revised clustered index. Part 2 of Column Order Indexes
2020-12-11 (first published: 2019-04-24)
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Ever wonder about index column order; this piece should give some insight.
2020-12-04 (first published: 2019-02-28)
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Is there a difference between using TOP and MAX/MIN to return and end value to a table?
2020-08-14 (first published: 2018-12-17)
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In Part 1 of this article we looked at a specific use case (probably exaggerated) that gave us an idea about how CPU and IO performance might be affected by a bad page split. We continue this analysis looking at what really happens to the data on the leaf pages of a clustered index with […]
2020-07-02
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2020-03-03 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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Introduction Fill Factor is a parameter most of us have ignored because there is no definitive way to calculate what the correct value should be. Part 1 of this series describes a new technique to dynamically determine index fill factors for all indexes within a database. Part 2 covers an analysis of the data collection […]
2019-08-27
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Introduction So what’s all the fuss about Fill Factor? It is a SQL Server parameter I’ve ignored for 20+ years. The main reason was/is I’ve had no idea about what value to use. There is just no documented definitive guidance. Back in April at SQL Saturday #830 - Colorado Springs, I attended two sessions by […]
2019-08-20
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I'm setting up a SQL Server 2019 instance and we are planning on using SMB storage for our database files. However, the file share isn't ready, so the idea is to use the \127.0.0.1dbfile as the location to start and then move these files to the remote server. Can I do this?
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