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A great way to keep tabs on the overall health of your SQL Server. Pricing: $129.99 per month per SQL Server instance when paid month to month. Payment on a recurring payment by credit card plan required. We provide monitoring tools that alert us when there is an issue so that we can recommend fixes before the issue becomes a …

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Sometimes we all need a little help without a long term commitment. That why we created our SQL Server Mentoring service at Stedman Solutions. SQL Server Mentoring is a training / consulting option for those who just need a little help or direction. This is a cost-effective approach for those who need just a little help. Some call it coaching, …

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SQL Server 2019 CU 16 (KB 5011644) 4/18/2022(Windows only) Here are the most up to date versions of SQL Server. SQL Server 2019 RTM CU 16Download links:CU 16 (KB 5011644)   SQL Server 2017 RTM CU 29Download links:CU 29 (KB 5010786)   SQL Server 2016 SP2 CU 17Download links:SP2 (KB 4052908)CU 17 (KB 5001092)   SQL Server 2014 SP3 CU …

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Top reasons for slow SQL Server performance I typically see are: Slow Running Queries, these are queries that run slow even with just one user in the database. Caused by poorly written queries. Caused by missing indexes. > See Database Health Monitor Missing Indexes Report. Caused by out of date statistics for your indexes. Many other reasons. Blocking Queries, where …

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CXCONSUMER and CXPACKET are associated with parallelism. When a query that has a cost beyond the cost threshold for parallelism then that query will be split out to be worked on by multiple cores. This is a good thing. It usually means that your queries are taking advantage of multiple cores. Reducing your max degree of parallelism setting is not …

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When I first created this JOIN Types poster or cheat sheet back in 2013 I didn’t realize there was such a need for it. I originally made this as a tool to explain JOIN types to a fellow coworker. It seemed almost impossible teach JOIN without it. The inspiration to create this tool came from a little bit of frustration. …

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