Far too often, an indexed view is created without consideration for the costs of the indexed view. In this article, Jason Brimhall covers some of the more important costs that are frequently overlooked when considering an indexed view as a performance panacea.
2019-04-05
Kevin Feasel provides three SSMS keyboard shortcuts for the sp_whoisactive calls he uses most often in day-to-day database development and query tuning work.
2019-04-02
The contents of the SELECT, WHERE and ORDER BY clauses are all a matter of determining the story you need to tell. I was asked to look into an issue recently where a 40-core SQL Server instance was fully utilizing a one node over all others...
2019-03-30
It’s surprisingly useful to know the number of active sessions on each of the databases on your servers. With a bit of SQL, we can create a custom metric to track how many sessions recently performed reads or writes on a database.
2019-03-30
I love the questions I get when presenting: Can You Force a Parallel Plan in Query Store. I haven’t a clue. The trick I think is going to be in setting up the test. Let’s try it out.
2019-03-30
Everything can be fixed with a query hint (*cough* directive), right? If a certain process is consistently causing deadlocks, a simple ROWLOCK hint can be added to prevent it, right?
2019-03-30
Previously Gail Shaw looked at using Query Store to compare execution plans, but it’s not the only way that two execution plans can be compared. The other method requires a saved execution plan and the Management Studio execution plan viewer.
2019-03-30
In this webcast, Tim Smith takes a look at various tips and tricks to assist you with performance tuning your SQL Server databases. Knowing how to find and resolve problems is key to improving performance, so join him to learn how to optimize your systems
2018-08-15
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Optimize searching for a string within another string with this string storage and indexing technique.
2018-07-31
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Performance tuning is a creative process which requires a lot of attention and manual work. SQL Server 2016's Query Store makes some of this work much easier, but what if you're using an earlier version? Fikrat Azizov shows how to automate assessing SQL Server query performance changes by using custom performance collection tools and reports.
2016-06-23
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By Steve Jones
Today Redgate announced that we are partnering with Bregal Sagemount, a growth-focused private equity...
By Steve Jones
I used Claude to build an application that loaded data for me. However, there...
End-to-end NVMe vs PVSCSI testing over NVMe/TCP to a Pure Storage FlashArray: TPC-C and...
Good Evening, Is there a simpler way to rearrange the following WHERE condition: [Column_1]...
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I have this code in SQL Server 2022:
CREATE SCHEMA etl;
GO
CREATE TABLE etl.product
(
ProductID INT,
ProductName VARCHAR(100)
);
GO
INSERT etl.product
VALUES
(2, 'Bee AI Wearable');
GO
CREATE TABLE dbo.product
(
ProductID INT,
ProductName VARCHAR(100)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.product
VALUES
(1, 'Spiral College-ruled Notebook');
GO
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE etl.GettheProduct
AS
BEGIN
SELECT ProductName
FROM product;
END;
GO
When I execute this code as a user whose default schema is dbo and has rights to the tables and proc, what is returned? See possible answers