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What's a pathological case where a bitmap filter would not allow the PROBE(Field, IN-ROW) semijoin reduction optimization?

I recently learned a performance optimization in SQL Server I did not know about ("Bitmap Filter On (Clustered) Non-Nullable Column Hash Semi-join Reduction via Scan + Probe IN-ROW" - a real mouthful),...
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Service Broker performance issues after upgrading from 2012 to 2017 - tons of LCK_M_IX

Last night we upgraded a SQL Server 2012 server to SQL Server 2017 + CU 29. This is one of a matched set - we send the same message to both and each processes it. No, this is not AlwaysOn; we're ...
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Avoiding Hash match to improve CPU usage for a specific query

We are trying to resolve or figure out change in plan for one of the top sql queries by CPU. This query we have found (it's a vendor-based product) which unfortunately I do not have access to extract ...
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Monitoring Query which executes thousand of run/minute and is generally fast

I am looking for some advise here on one of our SQL database server with below behavior- Queries running for this databases are generally considered good with avg run time of 20 ms. Suddenly on some ...
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Why SQL Server's MERGE has such a huge Excessive grant when compared to INSERT + DELETE?

I am trying to optimize a security computation process for a Web application by trying to making it synchronous (compute on the fly for an entity) instead of asynchronous (large computation for all ...
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User info retrieval takes too long - ASP.NET Membership

I have an application that has been taken from a sharepoint user control and converted to plain web pages. Everything is working fine - I can sign up and retrieve my password, etc. However, when I try ...
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How can I obtain a list of our applications' SQL statements that do not make use of indexes?

We have a system that processes thousands of statements a second, all running quickly. With so many statements we are looking to fine tune with small improvements to have a knock on large improvement ...
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