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Performance Comparison: Data Access Techniques

Architectural choices for data access affect performance, scalability, maintainability, and usability. This article focuses on the performance aspects of these choices by comparing relative performance of various data access techniques, including Microsoft® ADO.NET Command, DataReader, DataSet, and XML Reader in common application scenarios with a Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000 database.

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2002-03-01

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How to Fix Inconsistent Metadata Errors

Why does changing a table on a SQL Server 7.0 server cause "OLE DB provider 'SQLOLEDB' supplied inconsistent metadata. An extra column was supplied during execution that was not found at compile time." to occur when query the table from a SQL Server 2000 server via link to other. In this article by James Travis, he shows you what the problem is and how to fix it.

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2002-02-28

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Technical Chat: Inside with Jim Gray--The Search for Petabyte Storage

Please join Jim Gray, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Research, for this Q&A Session. Jim, the father of Structured Query Language, has been looking at LARGE databases like Google, Hotmail, BarBar, CERN, EOS/DIS, Internet Archive, and others that are either at a Petabyte or will grow to a petabyte scale in the next year or so.

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2002-02-28

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Dynamic SQL vs. Static SQL Part 1 - Security

Sooner or later everyone who works with SQL Server hears that it is better to avoid dynamic SQL at all cost. Dynamic SQL will force you to give out more permissions than static SQL. This article by Robert Marda shows you some of the security issues with dynamic SQL.

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2002-02-27

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Optimizing Stored Procedures To Avoid Recompiles

One of the most overlooked areas in optimizing SQL Server and Transact-SQL is the recompilations of stored procedures. A database getting thousands of recompiles an hour will suffer in performance and show short term blocking that will affect the database users. This article by Randy Dyess shows you some of the ways you can avoid stored procedure recompiles.

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2002-02-26

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