I’ve created a script that monitors a table in a SQL Server database. I’m only interested in one column in the table: ... #Put query result into a DateTime type variable.

In SQL Server 2017, when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the TVF subtree to get a very accurate cardinality ...

However, there are any number of queries in any application that SQL Server may never see again (at least in, for example, the next 24 hours). The plans for these "one-time" queries are taking up ...

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I just added a field, 'ExportDate' to a table (AYP) in my MS SQL 2000 database. Since I added the field to an existing table, the values for 'ExportDate' in all records is <null>.<P>What I need to ...