Category Archives for "Beginner"

Jun 08

Get a List of Tables That Are Compressed

By SQLRx Admin | Beginner , Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month

Find out if any of your tables are compressed in your database using the query below. Compressed tables can save space and make queries run faster. — Compressed Tables select distinct t.name AS CompressedTables from sys.partitions p inner join sys.tables t on p.object_id = t.object_id where p.data_compression > 0 If you don’t have any tables […]

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May 04

List Partitioned Tables And Other Info About Them

By Lori Brown | Beginner , Helpful Scripts , Partitions , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month

Here is a good way to find out if any of your tables are partitioned in your database using the query below. It is important to know so that you can find out how the tables are partitioned. — Partitioned Tables SELECT DISTINCT t.name AS ParitionedTables FROM sys.partitions p INNER JOIN sys.tables t ON p.object_id […]

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Apr 13

List Tables That May Be Over Indexed

By Lori Brown | Beginner , Helpful Scripts , Performance Tuning , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month

While not having enough indexes can be bad for query performance, having too many indexes can also be just as bad. Use the query below to get a list of tables in your database that has more than 10 indexes. — Tables with large number of indexes select t.name as TablesWithLargeNumInx, count(i.name) as CountIndexes from […]

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Feb 16

Shrinking Database Files – Let’s Not And Say We Did

By Lori Brown | Advice , Beginner , SQL Administration , SQL Server

— by Lori Brown  @SQLSupahStah I recently ran into someone who swears that shrinking database files on a production server is a good thing and proudly said they did it on all systems they work on.  OMG!!  Let me post a quote directly from MSDN regarding weather or not shrinking database files causes fragmentation (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189493.aspx) […]

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