Clustered Index Key – Natural or Surrogate?

This article will follow a practical approach to choose the right candidate for clustered index. It'll investigate through the best practices recommended for clustered index, with the help of...

A Deep Dive on Clustered Index

This article will follow a practical approach to choose the right candidate for clustered index. It'll investigate through the best practices recommended for clustered index, with the help of...

Probing Columnstore Indexes

In this article, our focus will be to test, the performance benefits of columnstore indexes, on a transactional (OLTP) workload, for real-time analytics.

We'll cover examples from each of...

COVID-19, a wake-up call

COVID-19 is the only pandemic I’ve seen in my whole life. It gave me a whole new percepective of the life. Kaal (Time) is mightiest of everyone and everything....

Probing Columnstore Indexes

In this article, our focus will be to test, the performance benefits of columnstore indexes, on a transactional (OLTP) workload, for real-time analytics.

We'll cover examples from each of...

Performance Tuning with Computed Columns

Computed Column can be utilized to optimize the query performance. It can be leveraged, to make the query sargeable, to make proper use of available indexes.

In this article,...

Demystifying STUFF() function

This article will talk about myth with Stuff() function that it can be only used for concatenation. We'll do the reality check to demystify the Stuff() function.

Part 3 : Does data archival strategy matters ?

This article is the part of Does it matter ? series.

We'll discuss various aspects to save cost and optimize the database performance by archiving the data.

T-SQL script to purge all the tables including foreign key references

T-SQL script to purge all the tables including foreign key references. The script has been made smart enough to use TRUNCATE wherever there is no foreign key reference and to use DELETE wherever there is foreign key reference.

T-SQL query to get the latest available backup chain

T-SQL query to return the latest available database backup chain (Full, Differential and Log) of individual databases along with their backup size and compressed size.