All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Correct Dynamic SQL Usage

All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Correct Dynamic SQL Usage


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All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Wrapper Stored Procedures

All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Wrapper Stored Procedures


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SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 5

SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 5


Hi Erik! I recently read a post stating that not de-fragmenting your indexes lead to more expensive plans, therefore ignoring index fragmentation Is a bad idea.” What do you think about this? This Is the post I’m referring to: https://sqlperformance.com/2017/12/sql-indexes/impact-fragmentation-plans
How can I get more out of SolarWinds DPA? People like it so much that I really don’t know what I’m missing. What is it great for?
When tables get large and the default sample rate inflates estimates do you generally recommend increasing the sample rate to lower the estimates or doing a full scan and disabling stats updates, or something else?
When viewing a long-running query in sp_whoisactive, how can I retrieve the parameter values of the query? I thought I could get them with @get_plans = 1 and then examining the ParameterCompiledValue in the execution plan, but that is unfortunately the param value for the cached plan that it is using, not the current param value that is causing it to run slow. I’m on SQL Server 2019 and have query store enabled. This would be a huge help, thanks!
If you could only have one watch from your current collection, what would it be? Also, what’s a grail watch that you think about a lot but can’t afford/justify/get ahold of? PS, if you can only answer one, please answer my serious SQL related question. Cheers

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Query Store Query Plan Confusion (Paramaters and Variables)

Query Store Query Plan Confusion (Paramaters and Variables)


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All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Local Variables

All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Local Variables


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All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Conditional Logic

All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Conditional Logic


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All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Data Types

All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Data Types


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A Short PSA On Transaction Count, ROLLBACK, and COMMIT In SQL Server

A Short PSA On Transaction Count, ROLLBACK, and COMMIT In SQL Server


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SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 4

SQL Server Performance Office Hours Episode 4


If I’m trying to resolve a consistent deadlock by increasing the transaction isolation level, am I doing anything obviously wrong? I thought it was a bad sign when I was stuck between picking Snapshot and Serializable.
You have said that table variables, CTEs, Change Tracking, and Azure Managed Instances all suck. Do you have a full list of “features” to avoid?
My company wants to move to Azure, but Azure DB performance sucks. What do I do?
Any experience with using a UTF8 varchar collation vs an nvarchar data type? Seems like in most circumstances UTF8 is just unambiguously better for for performance and storage on net-new development on SQL 2019+
why SQL Server sometimes change it execution plans when maxdop change from n to n+1 (n>1) (eg maxdop=14 and maxdop=15). No data changes, no statistics changes, no confif changes… only maxdop changes between runs

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All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Isolation Levels

All About SQL Server Stored Procedures: Isolation Levels


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