SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 40
Questions:
- I know that you praise indexed views as the best alternative to columnstore in Standard Edition. If their tragically limited syntax supports my query, how do you feel about using them for performance improvement on Enterprise Edition?
- You mentioned you like select into #tmp and creating the indexes after. I find not having control over the nullability of the column is a bit problematic if you want a primary key after. Is alter table #tmp add unique cluster sufficient? Or do you have any tips on controlling the nullability, even isnulling it doesn’t seem to help sometimes.
- What is your choice of background music when working away on T-SQL?
- Had any surprises, good or bad, with Accelerated Database Recovery?
- Hi, Erik! Can scalar UDFs be sniffed the same way as stored procedures?
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