Lynn Pettis

  • Interests: Sci Fi, Fantasy, Swords and Sorcery, Computers, Soccer (coach and ref)

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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

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2011-02-18 (first published: )

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