What this means is that the best execution plan for a parameter value of 1 or 2 would be for SQL Server to do an index seek operation against the SupplierID column (which happens to be indexed ...

In SQL Server 2016, Microsoft also added the query store, which helps track query performance and execution plans over time. While the query store is a fantastic tool for monitoring query ...

Originally, the SuperSQL query is directly converted into a single SQL query. In some query cases, this procedure returns a large intermediate table, which typically requires a long execution time ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and ...

The SQL query traces indicate the begin/end of query execution against the data source – theoretically, once this is done, rows are ready to be pulled from the source. That’s when you will see the ...

Prior to SQL Server 2017, if we make poor assumptions due to bad cardinality estimates, we do not change our query plan execution strategy during execution. Adapting to your workloads The new adaptive ...