Question I’m working on a web app which is using SQL Server Express (Microsoft SQL Server 2016 (SP1) (KB3182545) – 13.0.4001.0 (X64) Oct 28 2016 18:17:30 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Express Edition (64-bit) on Windows 10 Pro 6.3 (Build 18362: )). The web app is … [Read More]
SQL Server 2005 introduced Dynamic Management Views(DMVs). Technically, there are both views & functions–DMVs & DMFs, but colloquially they’re often simply referred to as just “DMVs”. DMVs simply return information about the state of the server or database and can be used for monitoring and … [Read More]
We’ve all been there. You’ve got a query where the JOIN or WHERE predicate is not SARGable. You’ve read about how this can be a problem, and how bad it is for performance. Alas, you cannot change the query. Sometimes this reason is political, sometimes … [Read More]
Assume you have configured a transactional replication publisher, which is part of an availability group (AG). Now, you have an asynchronous secondary AG (or mirroring) replica that is offline. Perhaps this is a DR node, and you are doing patching or other planned maintenance on … [Read More]
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