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Downgrade SQL Server edition by In-Place method!

As SQL Server Administrator you will probably sometimes solve downgrade edition of SQL Server, for example from Enterprise/Standard...

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How to find out estimated saving space for Data Compression for all tables in the database?

As I wrote, I need to find out for all user tables estimates size for the both types compression, ROW and PAGE. Therefore, I wrote this pret

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Resumable Online Index Create in SQL Server 2019

The Microsoft introduced with SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.0 new option in regards to Index Maintenance - Resumable Online Index Create. It allows

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SQL Server 2019: New features!

The latest SQL Server 2019 version is SQL Server 2019 (CTP) 2.2 which Microsoft announce at 10.12.2018. What is actually new in SQL Server 2

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How to configure Dynamic Data Masking?

DDM doesn't support following: Always Encrypted columns Filestream data Computed columns You cannot FULLTEXT index where DDM is implemen

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How to implement Always Encrypted?

Deterministic - This type always generates the same ciphertext for any plaintext value. This method supports grouping, indexing, joins point

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How to identify memory bottlenecks in SQL Server with DMV?

Page Life Expectancy(PLE) - This is number of seconds a when pages will stay in the buffer pool without references. In general, the minimal

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How to increase data and log files by 25% of their total size for all databases?

So, I wrote little script which based on table sys.database_files where we can find out a couple of informations for example size and name o

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Problem after migration from compatibility level 100 to 120.

QUERYTRACEON 9481 - This hint is used with compatibility level 120 and above for forcing cardinality estimator version 70, which means from