PowerShell & SQL Server: Search & Find Indexes By SchemaName, TableName, IndexName Or ColumnName Across Instances/DB’s

Necessity is the mother of new PowerShell code :-)! Today, I received an email request to get the list of all indexes in a given TableName but the requester did not specify the DatabaseName although the SQL InstanceName was specified. It would be too easy to ask the person for the DBName and script it …

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Oracle – Explain Plan Basics & Brief History

Whenever a SQL statement is submitted to the database server (be it Oracle or SQL Server), the server generates an execution plan which it uses to get the data in a well-defined order. The engine that does this work is called the “optimizer”. History of optimizers: RBO – Rule based optimizer Back in the day, …