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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Improved Online Operations in SQL Server 2014

Online indexing rebuilding was a major breakthrough from SQL Server to support users re-indexing while the clustered index (or table) and other indexes are available during the index rebuild operation.   However, in real world there are multiple issues with these online operations as it does not have much flexibility. In SQL Server 2014, there are few options included for these online operations which is discussed in this article.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Viewing Execution Plans While Queries are Running

Analyzing execution plans is a key tool when analyzing query performance. As most of you are aware there are two ways of analyzing query plans, namely ‘Include Actual Execution Plan’ and ‘Display Estimated Query Plan’

The Include Actual Execution Plan option will provide the execution plan after the completion of the query. However, this option is not very useful when dealing with long running queries.

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