An Informal Look at Database Performance
A review on the basic steps to correct a poorly performing query
2010-09-08
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Timothy A Wiseman
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Going From Many Schemas To One Schema
A Technique to deal with moving data from multiple schemas into one table
2010-08-09
6,399 reads
Undocumented Extended and Stored Procedures
Some useful undocumented extended and stored procedures in SQL Server 2005
2009-11-20 (first published: 2008-05-09)
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2009-01-17 (first published: 2008-05-28)
4,221 reads
2008-12-02
9,122 reads
2008-10-23 (first published: 2008-08-24)
1,915 reads
2008-09-09
12,786 reads
CTEs in Report Creation
A discussion on using CTEs to speed the development and maintenance of reports and enhance readability.
2008-03-31
6,157 reads
Reading Ad Hoc Text Files with OpenDataSource
Discusses the techniques and reasons to use opendatasource for reading text files in SQL Server 2005.
2007-12-13
10,372 reads
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Creating JSON I
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