Posts by Brent Ozar

In our last cliffhanger episode, I said that if we ran this query: Transact-SQL UPDATE dbo.Users SET Age = Age + 1 WHERE Id = 643; 123 UPDATE dbo.Users  SET Age = Age + 1  WHERE Id = 643; And we had this index: Transact-SQL CREATE INDEX IX_LastAccessDate_Id_DisplayName_Age ON dbo.Users(LastAccessDate, Id, DisplayName, Age); 12 CREATE INDEX IX_LastAccessDate_Id_DisplayName_Age  ON…

In our last episode, in between crab rangoons, I had you create either one of these two indexes: Transact-SQL CREATE INDEX IX_LastAccessDate_Id_Includes ON dbo.Users(LastAccessDate, Id) INCLUDE (DisplayName, Age); GO CREATE INDEX IX_LastAccessDate_Id_DisplayName_Age ON dbo.Users(LastAccessDate, Id, DisplayName, Age); GO 1234567 CREATE INDEX IX_LastAccessDate_Id_Includes  ON dbo.Users(LastAccessDate, Id)  INCLUDE (DisplayName, Age);GOCREATE INDEX IX_LastAccessDate_Id_DisplayName_Age  ON dbo.Users(LastAccessDate, Id, DisplayName, Age);GO And I said…

In our last episode, we were running into problems with these two queries: Transact-SQL SELECT LastAccessDate, Id, DisplayName, Age FROM dbo.Users WHERE LastAccessDate BETWEEN '2018-08-31' AND '2018-09-01' ORDER BY LastAccessDate; SELECT LastAccessDate, Id, DisplayName, Age FROM dbo.Users WHERE CAST(LastAccessDate AS DATE) = '2018-08-31' ORDER BY LastAccessDate; 123456789 SELECT LastAccessDate, Id, DisplayName, Age  FROM dbo.Users  WHERE LastAccessDate BETWEEN…