One of the best ways to reduce the load on your server and increase application responsiveness is to reduce the number of "round trips" your application makes. This article by Andy Warren shows you a few ways to increase your performance by reducing round trips.
2005-07-15 (first published: 2002-01-24)
23,414 reads
How many times have you run out of space in a database? What about on a file system? Andy Warren has had this happen a few times, especially when large imports take place. He brings us an article that describes some of the precautions he has taken to prevent this from happening.
2005-07-14
11,216 reads
Article number four in this popular series continues exposing Worst Practices! This week Andy continues his tirade by talking about why case sensitive databases should be BANNED from the planet. Is he right or just OUT OF CONTROL? Read the article and join the discussion - your comment may lead to an article, that's what generated this one!
2005-07-08 (first published: 2001-10-29)
29,271 reads
Version control of stored procedures is not exactly a SQL Server 2000 strong point. In fact, it is downright abysmal and there have been lots of ideas and solutions put forth to solve the problem. Andy Warren brings us a new one that's small and lightweight and may help you after getting inspired at TechEd 2005.
2005-06-17
12,772 reads
This article by Andy warren shows you how to get started with DMO using either VB or VBScript. The article includes sample code that will backup all databases on a server and will update the statistics on all databases as well.
2005-06-10 (first published: 2003-08-15)
39,159 reads
Our own Andy Warren recently spent a week in Santa Clara at the Software Development Magazine's SExpo 05. He shares a few notes on the experience. This conference is for all platforms and might be something for you if you are a software developer.
2005-05-05
3,305 reads
Do you use the maintenance plans or hate them? Wish they would do more? Curious about how they work under the hood? Cmon, you gotta read this one! Trust us, it's not another "how-to" article! Well, maybe just a little bit!
2005-03-04 (first published: 2002-04-11)
34,076 reads
Andy Warren takes a look at SQLCompare, a tool that lets you compare two SQL databases and create a script to synchronize the differences.
2005-01-14 (first published: 2001-06-06)
16,262 reads
Andy starts a new series about Worst Practices - come find out why and read about the first one on his list - using Hungarian Notation for column names!
2004-12-03 (first published: 2001-10-09)
34,422 reads
Andy started a contest this summer to see who could develop a T-SQL method of keeping a bowling score. He's finally gotten around to the results after the damage from the hurricanes was cleaned up. See who won and see the code that does the trick.
2004-11-19
5,941 reads
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