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Measuring SQL Performance

One thing that often amazes me is that many SQL Server developers do not actually measure the performance of their queries. Many of them thought that you needed external tools, more or less complicated, to run against your server, and they did not have the time or inclination to learn and try these. This article will describe a couple of much easier methods of measuring performance of queries.

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2005-12-23 (first published: )

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Think Twice Before You Convert

Have you ever lost data when using CAST or CONVERT in T-SQL? There is an interesting behavior that probably has caused problems for quite a few people, and one you should be aware of. New author Aries J. Manlig brings us a look at this documented, but mostly unheard of behavior.

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2005-12-22

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SET ROWCOUNT and TVFs

SQL Server 2000 has table valued functions that are very useful in many ways. However when you try to limit results with the ROWCOUNT setting, you can end up with some strange results. Peter He brings us a comprehensive look at some of the unpredictable results that you can get and how to code around them.

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2005-12-21

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Consume Web Service from Access

A few months ago, I posted an article here at DBJ named How to Pass Access Data Across the Web. One reader expressed concern over using the Microsoft Internet Explorer library because of security issues. While I do not share his fear, I appreciate that others might, so I began to think about how the process could be enhanced by substituting a Web Service for the traditional ASP/Querystring web page approach described in the article. What follows is the fruit of those labors.

2005-12-21

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DTS Hashing

DTS is a great tool in SQL Server 2000 for easily setting up jobs to import or export data. But it can also have security risks. New author Alex Kersha brings us a simple security technique to be sure that you are properly executing your DTS packages in a secure manner.

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2005-12-20

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