Things to Avoid in Your Query

LIKE ‘%xxxxxx%’ https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2010/06/sargable-why-string-is-slow/ Table Valued Functions https://www.brentozar.com/blitzcache/tvf-join/ Functions in from/below Implicit Conversions (convert to different data type) Comparing the contents of 2 columns on 1 table Table Variables Table variable does not have stats and serial for updates.

CTE (Common Table Expression)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/with-common-table-expression-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver16 Specifies a temporary named result set, known as a common table expression (CTE). This is derived from a simple query and defined within the execution scope of a single SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE or MERGE statement.  A Common Table Expression, also called as CTE in short form, is a temporary named result set that... » read more

SQL Server Windows Failover Cluster – Unable to start Roles

Status: Windows Failover Cluster fail to start any of the Roles All nodes in the Windows Failover Cluster are up. Identified several important event IDs that are common across all SQL nodes: 1069, 1205, 1254. Probable Causes: -SQL node names and AG name are not resolving or couldn’t register in the network. please look at the... » read more

ONLINE = ON

ONLINE = ON for SQL Server Enterprise / Developer Edition ONLINE = OFF for SQL Server Standard Edition

Updating SSL Certificate for Azure Web App

https://decoder.link/converter Input: mydomain.com.crt (cert folder) mydomain.com_key.txt (key folder) mydomain.com.ca-bundle (cert folder) Output: mydomain.pfx Upload the generated .pfx file to your Azure Web App “Certificates” and update your “Custom Domains” with the new certificate. Resources: https://www.ssls.com/

UDF (User Defined Functions) and Serialization

Your queries could be going parallel, but because of limitations in SQL Server, they staying serial: single-threaded. A lot of different things can cause this, including running SQL Server Express Edition (which only uses 1 CPU core), but the most common are Scalar UDFs. Generally, there’s not a server-level fix for these: you’re stuck rewriting the... » read more

Aligned and Non-Aligned Indexes for Partitioning

Partitioning is a powerful feature in SQL Server, allowing your data to be split across different “partitions”, which are simply smaller, more manageable pieces of a larger table or index. Partitioning can provide substantial performance benefits, especially for large tables, where queries that access only a fraction of the data can run much faster because... » read more