[Solved] Two databases of same size, backups sizes are very different

How to optimize this SQL query?

In case you have your own slow SQL query, you can optimize it automatically here.

For the query above, the following recommendations will be helpful as part of the SQL tuning process.
You'll find 3 sections below:

  1. Description of the steps you can take to speed up the query.
  2. The optimal indexes for this query, which you can copy and create in your database.
  3. An automatically re-written query you can copy and execute in your database.
The optimization process and recommendations:
  1. Create Optimal Indexes (modified query below): The recommended indexes are an integral part of this optimization effort and should be created before testing the execution duration of the optimized query.
Optimal indexes for this query:
CREATE INDEX databases_idx_database_id ON sys.databases (database_id);
CREATE INDEX master_files_idx_database_id ON sys.master_files (database_id);
The optimized query:
SELECT
        d.name,
        mf.physical_name,
        round(mf.size * 8 / 1024,
        0) Size_MBs 
    FROM
        sys.master_files mf 
    INNER JOIN
        sys.databases d 
            ON d.database_id = mf.database_id 
    WHERE
        d.database_id > 4 
    ORDER BY
        d.name

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