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When an index seek operator is not always your friend

Did you ever consider an index seek as an issue? . Well, let’s talk about a story with one of my customers where the context is pretty simple: a particular query that is out of the range of the application’s(…)

SQL Server 2016: new database-scoped configuration parameters part 2

In this blog post, let’s continue with other database-scoped options shipped with the SQL Server 2016 RC0. We will first begin with the first one and my preferred option: setting the MAXDOP value for(…)