Additional Articles


Technical Article

10 Ways to Optimize SQL Server Full-text Indexing

Indexing performance has always been the Achilles' heel of SQL Server's full-text feature. Although the search performance itself is fast (very few customers complain about the search speed), users do complain (often loudly and frequently) about how slow the indexing process is–especially for large tables. Here's a few tips for you.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-10-15

2,630 reads

Technical Article

Automatically Sets Default on Columns

If you set up a default on a column AFTER data has been entered, then this procedure will apply    the default to all NULL values within that column. Limitations:     It only works with numeric values right now.You will also need the INSTR function, which you can also get from this site.This is my first […]

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-10-13 (first published: )

117 reads

Technical Article

Architecting Disconnected Mobile Applications Using a Service Oriented

The Windows Mobile platform, which includes Microsoft .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft SQL Server CE, encapsulates the complex tasks of communication management and data exchange while your device is in a disconnected state. (16 printed pages)

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-10-13

1,690 reads

Technical Article

check rerun status of failed/cancelled jobs

There are times when you have mulitple job failures and need to find out in a quick way which jobs/steps failed and what their rerun statuses are.  This script creates a stored procedure in the msdb db to help you find out the statuses of these jobs.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-10-12 (first published: )

162 reads

Technical Article

Islands and Gaps in Sequential Numbers

As you know, relational databases are set-based and aren't particularly suited for row-at-a-time processing. However, in situations with heavily fragmented data (lots of gaps), you may find that row-based processing does better than set-based processing. Alexander Kozak demonstrates.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-10-12

1,833 reads

Technical Article

SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Financial Reporting

The SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Financial Reporting is a set of six Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services reports that work with a sample financial database called FinSampleDB.

With the Report Pack, you have the choice of using the sample reports either as-is or as templates for designing new reports using the SQL Server Reporting Services Report Designer.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-10-11

1,924 reads

Technical Article

SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Microsoft Exchange

The SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Microsoft Exchange is a set of 13 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services reports that work with a Microsoft Exchange sample reporting database.

With the Report Pack, you have the choice of using the sample reports either as-is or as templates for designing new reports using the SQL Server Reporting Services Report Designer.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-10-08

1,858 reads

Blogs

DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods

By

Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...

T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward

By

This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...

dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts

By

You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Training the next generation

By Pat Wright

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Training the next generation

Reusing Customer Specific Order Filtering Logic with CROSS APPLY and an Inline TVF (Part 4)

By Imran2629

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Reusing Customer Specific Order Filtering...

PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases

By Grant Fritchey

Comments posted to this topic are about the item PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases

Which of the following meta commands (sometimes called backslash or slash commands) within psql will provide you with information about the databases on the cluster?

See possible answers