Parallel Processing
Satish More brings us a framework that you can use to execute a number of jobs in parallel and finish a task quickly.
2009-10-12
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Satish More
Gain Space Using XML data type
This article is an attempt to explain the application of new XML support in SQL Server 2005 for efficient data storage and performance.
2009-08-04
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SQL 2000: Track Stored Procedure Changes
SQL Server 2000 does not log the procedures modified using ALTER statement. Here's the script to find out the same.
2009-07-06 (first published: 2009-03-02)
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Code Comparison between two databases
This script compares the code (SP, Func. etc.) between two databases (say Dev and QA) and reports the objects which have differences.
2009-02-26 (first published: 2007-03-08)
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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;