One recent realization for myself working with Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools is that while they have auto create stats, there is no auto update stats. So statistics will become stale faster than your bread left in the toaster. Rather than updating every 20% or so like traditional SQL Server. In additon, if you create an … Continue reading Finding Outdated and Missing Stats in Synapse SQL Pools
Author: Bob Duffy
I wrote this in 2010, before Clustered Column Store Indexes, SQL Pools (so rule 3 looks a bit odd), and before date data type was mainstream, but the rest of these still look quite Thou Shalt use something that exists in your query as a partition keyThou shalt not make up a surrogate partition keyThou … Continue reading Top 10 SQL Partition Commandments