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Filip Holub

Dec 10, 20193 min read

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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Filip Holub

Mar 7, 20191 min read

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

Filip Holub

Jan 13, 20192 min read

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

Filip Holub

Jan 10, 20191 min read

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

Filip Holub

Jan 8, 20191 min read

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

Filip Holub

Jan 6, 20192 min read

How to implement Always Encrypted?

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

Filip Holub

Dec 19, 20182 min read

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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Filip Holub

Dec 17, 20181 min read

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

Filip Holub

Dec 14, 20181 min read

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