Unexpected View Performance
Views that use implicit conversion to return result sets may use a different query plan than the statement executed in query analyzer.
2014-04-18 (first published: 2011-01-11)
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Thom Bolin
- Interests: Astronomy, Fly Fishing
Auditing with SQL Profiler
Complete package to allow tracking of any data that Profiler can capture and storage for auditing purposes, use to satisfy SOX compliance.
2009-07-16
5,922 reads
Moving Indexes
Working with filegroups and managing the location of your various objects can be a cumbersome task in SQL Server. New author Thom Bolin brings us a technique and some code that worked well for one of his clients.
2008-09-15
6,284 reads
Backup Verification
The following script runs against the current server and retrieves number of days since last full or differential and the number of days between them. it also retrieves the number of hours since the last transaction log backup.It currently returns a grid output.currently the script is under going changes to send XML back to an […]
2006-05-22 (first published: 2006-04-13)
1,256 reads
String Parsing
User Defined function to parse a string with known delimiters and return back the substing in the position.Takes string,delimiter and position as parameters. Can be used directly in TSQL code.
2003-03-27
343 reads
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