Dynamically Truncate a Partitioned Table
Wouldn't be great if you could truncate any partition of a partitioned table with one T-SQL statement? This article shows you how.
2013-07-11
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Articles
SQL Server: How Important Are Index Statistics
In this article Greg Larsen will show you how to identify when your index statistics were updated last, what method was used to gather statistics, and how to update your statistics.
2013-07-11
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An Automated Process to Archive Big Tables
Many databases have large tables with hundreds of millions of rows. However, many of these tables are simply keeping a log or history data that can be archived and kept outside the user database in a special archive database.
2013-07-10
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Understanding SQL Server Query Optimization Statistics
In this article, you will learn what query optimisation statistics are and how SQL Server query optimizer uses statistics. You will also learn how to create and manage statistics, and what are the different ways to determine when statistics were last updated in SQL Server.
2013-07-10
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SQL Saturday #230 Rheinland
SQL Saturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This event will be held Jul 13 2013 at Grantham-Allee 20, Sankt Augustin, Cologne/Bonn, Rheinland, 53757 , Germany.
2013-07-09 (first published: 2013-07-05)
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Identify and Correct SQL Server Forwarded Records
Forwarded records in SQL Server can cause performance issues on heap tables because the record outgrows the page and the database engine uses pointers to reference the data. The best practice is to have a clustered index on every table, however, sometimes there are cases when a clustered index is not needed.
2013-07-09
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Exploring In-memory OLTP Engine (Hekaton) in SQL Server 2014 CTP1
The continuing drop in the price of memory has made fast in-memory OLTP increasingly viable. SQL Server 2014 allows you to migrate the most-used tables in an existing database to memory-optimized 'Hekaton' technology, but how you balance between disk tables and in-memory tables for optimum performance requires judgement and experiment.
2013-07-08
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New SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Untrusted Check Constraints
This metric returns the number of check constraints that have their is_not_trusted flag set to 1 in the sys.check_constraints table. Untrusted constraints force SQL Server to construct less efficient query plans, because it doesn’t know enough about the kind of data contained in the table. This can point to a data integrity issue which should be investigated.
2013-07-08
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2013-07-05 (first published: 2010-11-23)
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SQL Server Trace Flags
A comprehensive list of trace flags for SQL Server that you can use to configure your server instance.
2013-07-05 (first published: 2010-06-03)
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Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers