Technological Movements and the Herd Mentality....
It's amazing to me how the herd mentality works in Technology (and many other things) sometimes. I get the idea...
2011-11-29
1,159 reads
Sam Bendayan
Inline TVFs can't use FORCE ORDER hint but Multi-Statement TVFs can...?
Doing some work with converting Multi-Statement TVFs to Inline TVFs and I'm finding that the Inline TVFs cannot use the...
2011-11-08
681 reads
More info on nested views causing performance problems
As if I needed any further convincing that nested views were bad....
The other day I had to write a particularly...
2011-02-15
1,174 reads
Strange issue while using IDENTITY values in INSTEAD OF triggers
Found an interesting issue last week....it goes like this:
If you are using INSTEAD OF triggers on views (in SQL 2005)...
2010-12-23
783 reads
Range locks do not only occur in Serializable transactions....
According to BOL, "Key-range locks protect a range of rows implicitly included in a record set being read by a...
2010-09-22
1,037 reads
Professional Licensing for Software Professionals?
Over the past few days I have been thinking that the Software Industry is in drastic need of a Professional...
2010-07-14
1,293 reads
Option missing in NTILE function?
Just saw something interesting....we have a requirement to divide a result set into a certain number of groups that have...
2010-06-09
740 reads
Nested views causing query performance woes....
Just ran into an interesting issue AGAIN. It seems that when you nest views in a query you are opening...
2010-04-05
8,677 reads
Access Analysis Services via T-SQL?
It occurred to me the other day that it might be interesting to manage aggregates in an SQL Server database...
2010-03-22
854 reads
BiTemporal Tables, anyone?
I'm doing some interesting research on using BiTemporal tables and I was wondering if anyone out there has any real-world...
2010-03-11
717 reads
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;