2011-08-02 (first published: 2009-07-08)
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Articles
Speeding Up Database Access Part 3 - Fixing Missing Indexes
Learn how to add those indexes you need in part 3 of Matt Perdeck's 8 part series on improving data access. This is based on the book ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets.
2011-08-02
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SQLServerCentral.com Best Practices Clinic: Part 5
In this article, Brad McGehee takes a brief look at four resource intensive queries that are running on the SQL Server instance that runs the SQLServerCentral.com website. Don't miss out on the competition in this article.
2011-08-02
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Extract Objects from SSRS Reports
A discrete list of database objects is extracted from SSRS using SQL, SSIS, and RegExtractor in order to identify reports that might break when a schema upgrade is performed.
2011-08-01
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CLR Performance Testing
Are Common Language Runtime routines in SQL Server faster or slower than the equivalent T-SQL code? How would you go about testing the relative performance objectively? Solomon Rutzky creates a test framework to try to answer the question and comes up with some surprising results that you can check for yourself.
2011-08-01
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SQL Saturday #64 - Baton Rouge, LA
Come join Steve Jones for a day of SQL Server training in Baton Rouge on Aug 6, 2011. Free training!
2011-08-01 (first published: 2011-07-08)
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SQL Overview V - Monitoring Long Running Jobs
Continuing with his series on monitoring your SQL Servers, David Bird now looks a a way to fin those long running, active jobs.
2011-07-29 (first published: 2010-03-24)
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Backup to multiple files for faster and smaller SQL Server backup files
Write your database backup to multiple files. In addition to writing your database backup to one file you have the ability to write to multiple files at the same time and therefore split up the workload. The advantage to doing this is that the backup process can run using multiple threads and therefore finish faster as well as having much smaller files that can be moved across the network or copied to a CD or DVD.
2011-07-29
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2011-07-28 (first published: 2009-07-01)
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Third Normal Form
The third article in our series on normalization from Tom Thomson continues with an explanation on what constitutes third normal form.
2011-07-28
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