Learn why you should use a query plan for database administration and how it can help you optimize, troubleshoot, and automate your queries.

their respective SQL statements, the Sub-Tree cost of the statements, and their usecounts. Using this script, you will be able to identify execution plans that use parallelism, which may stop using ...

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Your database may get damaged due to several reasons. A backup will help you to restore the database lost in case of disasters and problems, like hardware failure, virus attack, or others. How To ...