Large table cleanup with minimal locks
How do you delete millions of rows with minimal impact to the business? This article gives you a way to accomplish the removal of old data.
2012-03-06
15,484 reads
Articles
SQL Saturday #114 - Vancouver
A free day of SQL Server training in Vancouver, BC, Canada on Mar 17, 2012.
2012-03-06
1,373 reads
SQL Saturday #115 - Portugal
A free day of SQL Server training in Lisbon. Register and come if you can.
2012-03-06
1,289 reads
TSQL Challenge 77-Transform monthly resource efforts to weekly actuals
The challenge is to transform monthly resource efforts into weekly actuals.
2012-03-05
734 reads
Working with Perfmon CSV logs in Powershell
When all you have is Powershell and perfmon logs, here's a way you can use them together to perform some analysis.
2012-03-05
4,108 reads
2012-03-05
1,402 reads
The Road to Professional Database Development: Set-Based Thinking
Under the pseudonym of 'SwePeso', Peter Larsson is famous on SQL forums for the amazing performance he can get from SQL. How does he do it? In the first of a series of articles, Peter explains his secrets.
2012-03-05
4,317 reads
Eliminating Duplicate Rows using The PARTITION BY clause
The Partition clause in the Row_Number() Over() function is a quick tool for eliminating duplicate rows.
2012-03-02 (first published: 2010-09-22)
143,526 reads
Exploring SSIS Architecture and Execution History Through Scripting
When you are using SSIS, there soon comes a time when you are confronted with having to do a tricky task such as searching for particular connection strings in all your SSIS packages, or checking the execution history of scheduled SSIS jobs. You can do this type of work effectively in T-SQL as Feodor Georgiev explains.
2012-03-02
2,397 reads
Change the port number for connections to SQL Server
How to change the port number for connections to SQL Server.
2012-03-01
13,654 reads
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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