Using SQL Sentry Plan Explorer to Shed Light on Estimated Execution Plans
Note: While I do have business relationships with many vendors, I do not have one with SQL Sentry aside from attending their great annual party at the PASS Summit. SQL Server allows us to have access to two types of execution plans, estimated and actual. Actual execution plans give us the real row counts and […]
Are You Still Installing SQL Server from the GUI?
This post was inspired by the following tweet from the Robert Davis. I have seen it all. “I imported SQL Server’s registry from another machine but it won’t start.” <- No s#!+ — Robert L Davis (@SQLSoldier) February 3, 2016 A little bit of a story—I once had a client who was insanely worried about […]