http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged T-SQL, Advanced Querying, Performance Tuning and Scaling posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)How many of you use Execution Plans to tune your queries? Do you understand the impact of different indexes? Mr. Vijayakumar looks at his experiments with different types of indexes and their effects on the execution plan use. A great article for those of you that want to learn more about how you can tune your server for better performance. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/executionplans/1345/2005/10/07http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/executionplans/1345/How many of you use Execution Plans to tune your queries? Do you understand the impact of different indexes? Mr. Vijayakumar looks at his experiments with different types of indexes and their effects on the execution plan use. A great article for those of you that want to learn more about how you can tune your server for better performance. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/executionplans/1345/2005/10/07http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/executionplans/1345/Bitwise operators can be challenging to manage at first. However, with practice and patience, and under the right conditions, these operators can provide remarkable performance improvements in production environments. This article will compare two methods of accomplishing the same output, one with a normalized model and the other with bitwise operators. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/usingbitmaskoperators/790/2002/09/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/usingbitmaskoperators/790/The purpose of this article is to give you a working knowledge of how to view and understand query execution plans for SQL Server. This is part 1 in a series of articles that will walk you through understanding execution plans to help you improve your queries. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/understandingexecutionplans/739/2002/07/26http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/understandingexecutionplans/739/Building and executing dynamic sql in a stored procedure - is it the only way to solve problems like supporting a simple search function? Leon offers a couple alternatives that let you continue to provide the functionality in a stored procedure without using dynamic sql. Interesting ideas worth exploring! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/makingdynamicqueriesstatic/672/2002/05/02http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/makingdynamicqueriesstatic/672/