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)
54,528 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
11,148 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
1,255 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
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers