Every developer needs to ensure that each TSQL statement is optimized. This article will give you a few different ideas on how to identify slow running queries and provide you with some tips on monitor your query performance while you make iterative changes to each query to try and improve performance.
2008-01-22
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Broker is a new platform for building distributed asynchronous database applications. Including an asynchronous, reliable messaging feature in the SQL Server database makes it possible to build a variety of database applications that were difficult, if not impossible, to build before.
2008-01-21
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Older versions of SQL Server had only one datatype to store both the date and time values. In SQL Server 2008, Microsoft introduces a set of new datatypes that store date and time individually, and both date and time together.
2008-01-21
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An upgrade to the Best Practices Analyzer from Microsoft is now available. Here's a blog post from the SQL CAT team.
2008-01-21
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Data access is an important aspect of developing applications with the Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework for Windows Mobile® devices. By using the existing architecture to send and receive data between your mobile application and your application server, you can pass data with either DataSets, custom objects, or scalar values.
2008-01-18
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A weekly show from a few SQL Server MVPs that looks at a variety of technology items. This episode concentrates on SQL server.
2008-01-18
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This white paper describes how application developers can leverage the functionality of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services to address the data integration challenges of Master Data Management applications.
2008-01-18
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A common activity in applications is to page results or record sets from a database. This is usually done on the client using the client's paging functionality or on the server through a variety of methods. In SQL Server 2000 those server side methods typically used dynamic SQL or nested TOP clauses and weren't very efficient. Using Common Table Expressions in SQL Server 2005 we have a better way to page record sets on the server.
2008-01-17 (first published: 2007-01-25)
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The definitions of data governance and data stewardship that I use have changed, albeit slightly, over the years of providing data governance and stewardship solutions.
2008-01-17
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Report parameters assist in narrowing down a report for better analysis.
2008-01-17
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