Nicholas Cain

Nicholas Cain started out as the overnight grunt at the now defunct MicroWarehouse 3 years ago. There he got his first introduction to SQL Server where he found an interest and a little aptitude thanks to the help of some great workmates. He now works as a DBA at T-Mobile USA.

SQLServerCentral Article

Checking Your Database Fragmentation Level

Fragmentation in SQL Server is a huge debate. Does it matter? How much is too much? What should you do? In any case, new author Nicholas Cain has put together a system that allows him to keep track of the levels of fragmentation as well as defragment those tables when he feels they are getting too spread apart.

5 (1)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2007-10-02 (first published: )

34,238 reads

Technical Article

SQL Blocking and Blocked Proc + Notifi - Part2

Based on the script by Paul Delmarche ( http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/1482.asp ).Updated to now include the spid, username, blocked and blocking SQL statements in the email (still logged to table).Schedule the procedure to run at defined intervals (I use 2 minutes)

5 (1)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2005-05-12 (first published: )

1,418 reads

Technical Article

Retrieve Index Information For All Tables - V2

This is an update to sp_helpindex, it allows you to pass the table name and whether you want to retrieve clustered, nonclustered or primary key indexes for a table. Using the sp_msforeach table will allow you to do this for all tables in a database. Inserting the data into a table will allow you to […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-03-04

964 reads

Technical Article

Retrieve Index Information For All Tables

This is an update to sp_helpindex, it allows you to pass the table name and whether you want to retrieve clustered, nonclustered or primary key indexes for a table. Using the sp_msforeach table will allow you to do this for all tables in a database. Inserting the data into a table will allow you to […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-03-01

1,266 reads

Blogs

Create and Verify Microsoft Fabric Capacity

By

From June 1, 2023, Microsoft Fabric (preview) capacities are available via the Azure portal....

What is Always Encrypted and how does it work?

By

Always Encrypted was a new encryption feature added to SQL Server with the 2016...

Power BI – Empowering Users to Disable Tooltips

By

Let’s set the scene. You’ve built a wonderful, useful, and descriptive report for your...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Display columns from multiple rows in single

By gjoelson 29755

Hello,  Im looking for assistance. I have this query and need to display the...

Azure Dataware or Azure SQL Pools and equivalent to profiler in Azure...

By digdave7

I added the Profiler module to AZure Data Studio in our ("Microsoft Azure SQL...

Reset launchpad service to use default account

By Pete Bishop

I have an issue with SQL Server Launchpad service. Initially it wouldn't start (configured...

Visit the forum

Ask SSC Logo Ask SSC

SQL Server Q&A from the SQLServerCentral community

Get answers

Question of the Day

Refresh Limits

See possible answers