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I just had an interesting case of performance tuning: a query with multiple predicates on a very large table. Something like this: SELECT...

Mar 9, 20182 min read

One day, your Availability Group cluster can get into a critical state in a way that forces your team to create the Availability Group...

Mar 9, 20181 min read

We have many customers, and we work on lots of projects. Each project is different in so many ways: the business environment, the system...

Mar 8, 20181 min read

This wait type indicates that parallel plans execute on the server. This wait type doesn’t necessarily means there is a problem. It only...

Mar 2, 20181 min read

When administrating a SQL Server instance with multiple CPU cores and heavy workload, it’s common to see SQL Server creating and...

Feb 27, 20183 min read

Everyone, who deal with SQL server, know sample database AdventureWorks, which has been with us since the days of SQL Server 2005. Most...

Feb 19, 20182 min read

Everyone knows the simple T-SQL “SELECT * ” is bad practice. It can: Effects the execution plan (Table / Index Scan); Returns too much...

Feb 15, 20181 min read

בכל אחד ואחת מאיתנו קיים הצורך בלמידה מתמדת. הן בתחומים שיקדמו אותנו בעבודה והן בנושאים אחרים. מקום העבודה, המקום בו אנחנו נמצאים שליש...

Feb 4, 20182 min read

Usually, when I need to troubleshoot currently running requests, I use a combination of sys.dm_exec_requests and sys.dm_os_waiting_tasks....

Feb 1, 20181 min read

Houston, We Have a Problem We are living in a crazy world. And it just gets more and more crazy all the time. The amount of tasks we are...

Jan 28, 20188 min read