These are 5 questions asked after our February 2020 corruption presentation. Hope these answers help you as well. Transcription: 0:10Q: So our very first question is in regards to check DB when you’re when you’re mentioning people who are colorblind. He asks, “Can you use with no messages?” Steve Stedman 0:24A: Yes, absolutely. And you know, it’s check DB. And …
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The question comes up when looking at an execution plan of whats the difference between an index seek and an index scan. What it really comes down to is speed, for tables with a large number of rows, and thus indexes with a large number of rows, an index seek may take significantly less time than an index scan. This …
The Stedman Solutions team shares ways to reduce the impact of server corruption. Transcription: Steve Stedman 0:10All right. Ways to reduce impact are backups, good backups, frequent backups, and off site backups with that, it’s not just SQL backups, but also virtual machine and system backups, not just backups, but backups that have been confirmed and tested. And tested recently. …
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Common Table Expressions are a great way to simplify complex derived table queries. If it makes sense to break out one derived table or subquery into a CTE, it can make sense to do multiple. To use multiple CTE’s in a single query you just need to: Finish the first CTE Add a comma, Declare the name Optional columns for …
Learn how Optimize For Ad-Hoc Workloads can save some space in your plan cache. Transcription: Steve Stedman 0:09Hi, this is Steve Stedman and I’m here to talk about daily checkup or database health quick scan items that we come across occasionally. These are settings that we optimize or configure on the SQL Server in order to help with performance. Usually, …
Cost threshold for parallelism and the max degree of parallelism ( maxdop ) are 2 important setting for your SQL Server. Find out how to set these and what they should be set to. Transcription: Steve Stedman 0:09Hi, this is Steve Stedman and I’m here to talk about a couple of the daily checkup or database health quick scan items …
Join us May 11th @ 12 pm PST – Steve Stedman will teaching a FREE lesson on SQL Server Join Types. TSQL joins – what’s the difference, and how can you use joins correctly? Sometimes an inner join is the right join type to use, other times the left outer join, right outer join, full outer join, cross join or …
Have you ever wanted to create a recursive query, but didn’t see how to do it. With the Common Table Expressions session you will learn everything needed to start using CTE’s for recursive queries, as temporary views, and to use the result set multiple times in the same query. Learn how simplify query syntax using CTE’s. One of the most …
Steve Stedman and Derrick Bovenkamp explain the difference between ransomware and database corruption. We offer SQL server corruption repair and even Emergency repair. Generally we will have you up and running again within 24-48 hours! Schedule a free 30 consultation and see how we can help. Transcription: Steve Stedman 0:05Let’s take a look at how ransomware relates to your SQL …
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As a DBA you regularly schedule backups you might have regular full backups, incremental backups and hopefully regular backups. Over time you might realize that your error log is not longer filled with errors, but instead a majority of your error log is filled with backup messages. “Backup Database successfully … “, “Database backed up…”, “Log was backed up”. This …
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