2012-06-06
3,085 reads
Lynn Pettis
- Interests: Sci Fi, Fantasy, Swords and Sorcery, Computers, Soccer (coach and ref)
Deleting Large Number of Records
Often someone will try to perform a delete on a large number of records and run into a number of problems. Slow performance, log growth, and more. Lynn Pettis shows us how to better handle this situation in SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005
2011-02-18 (first published: 2009-09-15)
54,503 reads
Entering the Dark Side
If any of you follow me on SQLServerCentral.com, then you know I recently started a new job. Well, after two...
2010-08-26
1,692 reads
Sins of a Recursive CTE?
On June 1, 2010, Steve Gray had an article, Sins of SQL: The Time Table, published on sqlservercentral.com. I’m not...
2010-06-03
2,587 reads
2010-04-30
3,432 reads
Getting Scared
This is not a technical post, it’s personal, but I need to express my fears. It isn’t about our economy,...
2010-04-01
1,560 reads
The Dynamic Tally or Numbers Table
Building a tally table is a common T-SQL problem that many new developers struggle with. Lynn Pettis brings us an article that shows how to use CTEs to accomplish this.
2009-09-22
11,135 reads
My next republished article is now available
Okay, my second article which was originally published on sswug.org, is now available on SQLServerCentral.com. This article compares two methods...
2009-09-21
1,254 reads
Republished Article
Well, the first of two articles I originally had published on sswug.org will be published on ssc tomorrow. I'm looking...
2009-09-14
1,503 reads
Welcome Home !!
I realize I have been relatively quiet for a while, but summer is actually a fairly busy time for us...
2009-08-22
1,214 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...
Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information
By Brian Kelley
For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday...
Forums
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to the 1st 21 rows?
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Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column
Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...
any reason to avoid asking ssis to extract files from ftp
hi we have to replace talend which generally was used to move files. talend's...
Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers