It is not always easy to spot "antipatterns" in your SQL, especially in more complex queries. In this article, Plamen demonstrates some of the most common SQL coding errors that he encounters, explains their root cause, and illustrates potential solutions.
2009-09-11
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This is part three of a series on writing a technical article. The advice might apply to non-technical articles, but...
2009-09-11
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A last push for the 2009 PASS Summit before registration goes up.
2009-09-10
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A new article from Paul Els looks at managing free space on your database servers by finding detached databases and old backup files.
2009-09-10
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There are many different ways to manipulate dates when working with them in SSIS. Many great examples have been posted...
2009-09-10
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I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role...
2009-09-10
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Whether a query uses Scan or Seek can have a big impact on the cost of excuting that query. This article examines when each is used and which is optimal.
2009-09-10
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In this white paper we discuss two of the new features in SQL Server 2008, Star Join and Few-Outer-Row optimizations. We test the performance of SQL Server 2008 on a set of complex data warehouse queries designed to highlight the effect of these two features and observed a significant performance gain over SQL Server 2005 (without these two features).
2009-09-10
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Tired of the truncated error history that is available for SQL Server Agent jobs in SSMS, here is a way to get deeper information - easily!
2009-09-09
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Partition alignment is a well documented best practice, but does it have any benefit on an HP EVA?
2009-09-09
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By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
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I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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