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Database professionals agree - SQL Server performance tuning is hard. And on top of that, it never stops because complex database environments are always changing with upgrades, application updates ...

Along with XEvents, DMOs make up the bulk of my trouble­shooting and performance-tuning toolkit for any SQL Server instance, version 2014 or greater. For that matter, it’s so com­prehensive that there ...

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There are situations in which you need to individually handle each row in a result set. SQL Server 2008 provides a minimal set of tools — cursors and WHILE loops — to accomplish this task.