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How does SQL Server generate a query execution plan that adds up to 6,000%? [duplicate]
Today I was on The Heap and was looking at a query plan for something I thought could be improved. However, it created something that shook my belief in the SQL Server query optimizer. Can I still ...
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Ok to drop indexes on FK's if they have no stats in the DMVS
I have used the well known query below from Kevin Kline to check for unused indexes. Several indexes created on Foreign keys returns no read stats, only writes.
Are you 100% safe to drop these ...
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Why are there execution plan differences between OFFSET … FETCH and the old-style ROW_NUMBER scheme?
The new OFFSET ... FETCH model introduces with SQL Server 2012 offers simple and faster paging. Why are there any differences at all considering that the two forms are semantically identical and very ...
