do RESTORE HEADERONLY and check if HasIncompleteMetadata is set to 1.

My use case was for a large number of deletes in...

Statistics are independent of each other so you can have 1 stat with sampling, another with full scan, another with incremental, another with filter.

The test is below, from the below...

Bill Talada (11/22/2016)

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I have an alternate suggestion to your generic script which is to manually write custom stored procedures for whatever process you are going to call. No offense...

Hi

That means that you are executing the queries manually.

The output of the query is of no importance.

The checksum is used since it can work on all data types.

The important bit...

Backup times were before vs after optimisation for one of my databases.

Native sql default options

BACKUP DATABASE successfully processed 4098542 pages in 3049.584 seconds (10.499 MB/sec)

Native sql Buffercount=500, maxtransfer =...

Changing cost threshold for parallelism could also invalidate plans.

Let us see the code and/or plan.

If anything, I am guessing the query may not be optimum.

I have seen option(recompile) work wonders...

Has warming the cache improved the deployment time in your test environment?

I would only look for a more permanent solution if I have proven that caching was the problem.

I'm including Eirikur Eiriksson's reply to a different thread as that has a great example of how warming the cache works.

So try doing this for the largest system tables.

Remember when...

Have you resolved the issue yet?

If not, can you check as an example

sp_spaceused 'sys.sysschobjs'

My prod DB has 5000 rows and is 3MB.

If you have 2 million objects, I am...

Jeff Moden (11/2/2016)

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This could actually be...

you didnt specify which full you mean, is the F drive 75% full and you want to add disk, or the MDF is 75% full and you want to grow...

For all the DB info

http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic670489-146-1.aspx

For the disk info

SELECT distinct volume_mount_point,total_bytes/1024/1024 total_bytesInMB ,available_bytes/1024/1024 available_bytesInMB

FROM sys.master_files AS f CROSS APPLY

sys.dm_os_volume_stats(f.database_id, f.file_id)

Try disable all SQL Server Error and Usage Reporting options.

If that doesnt work, try disable (Check for publishers certificate revocation) in IE Advanced options, if you willing to accept the...

Here is an article around that.

In the article, the numbers table is created and then worked on after.

http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/70735/