The process of query optimization is very computationally expensive. For this reason, SQL Server stores execution plans in a cache (called the plan cache), so that the stored execution plan is ...

Once you've identified the long-running queries, you can start the troubleshooting process ... way as you did in SQL Server profiler. In the field column, select sqlps.task_execution_time ...

SQL Server 2022 ... cell using Microsoft Excel’s Power Query (TechRepublic) “Cardinality Estimation feedback identifies and corrects suboptimal query execution plans for repeating queries ...

I have a test server hosting several sites using SQL Server Express and SQL Management Studio Express. <BR><BR>I've seen one site have an occasional issue where queries to a particular table (the ...

I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: TimeStamp. If the maximum (newest) value in TimeStamp is more than 30 ...

Most DBAs are already familiar with SQLCMD, introduced with SQL Server 2005 to replace the old OSQL command-line query interface. SQLPS uses a cmdlet called invoke-sqlcmd to call SQLCMD and pass a ...