One of the coolest things to come to SQL Server Management Studio in a long time might be hard to see at first: it’s tucked away in the Properties Window.
But once you see it, it might just be something that you use all the time.
Short answer: the SQL Server optimizer will know that the table was truncated, but statistics might not update when you expect.
For the long answer, let’s walk through an example using the WideWorldImporters sample database.
I got a great question about Edition downgrades recently.
SQL Server has two types of filtered indexes:
If you use SQL Server’s blocked process report or collect deadlock graphs, occasionally you’ll come across things that look like this:
waitresource=“PAGE: 6:3:70133 " waitresource=“KEY: 6:72057594041991168 (ce52f92a058c)”
I get a lot of requests about which books are helpful to learn performance tuning and database design. I totally get that – I still like learning with books. It doesn’t mean training videos or blogs are any less cool. They can all work together.
Should you look at automatically created statistics on your tables in SQL Server to help you design better indexes? Learn why in this 20 minute video, or subscribe to the Dear SQL DBA podcast.
No time to watch? Scroll on down, everything is written in article form below the video.
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