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Day: March 21, 2022

Linear Data Structures

Published 2022-03-21 by Kevin Feasel

Dave Saunders describes the concept of linear data structures:

As we said in the introduction, a data structure is ‘linear’ if the elements form a sequence.

That means that the data structure has a first and last element, and each element is connected to its previous and next element.

– An ‘array’ is a linear data structure; the items are stores sequentially.

– A ‘graph’ is not a linear data structure; any node can be linked to any other node in the graph – there is no fixed ‘sequence’.

Click through for several examples of linear data structures.

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Setting Powershell’s TLS Version

Published 2022-03-21 by Kevin Feasel

Frank Gill updates TLS:

I was recently working on a client server and need to install the Az PowerShell module. I opened and administrator window and typed

Install-Module Az

and received this error:

WARNING: Unable to find module repositories.

Turns out that was not the real answer. Click through to see what Frank ended up needing to do.

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The Upsert Pattern and Unique Indexes in SQL Server

Published 2022-03-21 by Kevin Feasel

Michael J Swart recommends a unique index:

To avoid deadlocks when implementing the upsert pattern, make sure the index on the key column is unique. It’s not sufficient that all the values in that particular column happen to be unique. The index must be defined to be unique, otherwise concurrent queries can still produce deadlocks.

Read on for Michael’s thoughts as well as some smart commenters adding on.

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Cross-Database Graph Query Problems

Published 2022-03-21 by Kevin Feasel

Louis Davidson receives a nastygram from SQL Server’s graph functionality:

Just understand that if you need any of the graphDb underlying data structures, you will need to find their actual physical name and use it. I would definitely suggest never accessing these columns via any method other than the pseudocolmns for production code (because you have no way to predict the column names from dev to prod (you cannot specify the names when creating a table), but this following code does work:

Click through to see the issue and Louis’s workarounds.

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Tuning Non-Clustered Indexes via Missing Index Suggestions

Published 2022-03-21 by Kevin Feasel

Kendra Little announces a new article:

We’ve just published a new article in the SQL docs, Tune nonclustered indexes with missing index suggestions . The article explains what the missing index feature is, limitations of the feature, and how to use missing index DMVs and missing index suggestions in Query Store to tune indexes.

Read on to understand the impetus behind this article and then go check it out yourself.

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Query Plan Warnings and Operator Properties

Published 2022-03-21 by Kevin Feasel

Erik Darling continues a series on understanding execution plans. First up, what some of those warnings mean:

The good news is that SQL Server’s query plans will attempt to warn you about problems. The bad news is that most of the warnings only show up in Actual Execution Plans. The worse news is that a lot of the warnings that try to be helpful in Estimated Execution plans can be pretty misleading.

Next, Erik reviews some interesting properties:

There’s a lot of stuff flying around in a query plan. Data and what not.

Sure, you can hover over operators and arrows and see some stuff, but if you really wanna see stuff — I mean REALLY wanna see stuff — you gotta get into the properties.

Check out both posts.

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