How many of you use Execution Plans to tune your queries? Do you understand the impact of different indexes? Mr. Vijayakumar looks at his experiments with different types of indexes and their effects on the execution plan use. A great article for those of you that want to learn more about how you can tune your server for better performance.
2017-02-02 (first published: 2004-05-06)
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After completing a project with SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, author G Vijayakumar brings us his technique for an automated scheduling of various source data into a data warehouse with multiple packages.
2007-10-30
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Performance tuning is an ongoing battle in SQL Server, but having a little knowledge up front when designing an application can greatly reduce the efforts. Do you know which performs better: stored procedures or triggers? There aren't many places where the two are interchangeable, but knowing the impacts of each might change the way you build an application. Read about this analysis by Vijaya Kumar.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2004-08-30)
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The ORDER BY clause is one of the basic keywords that defines the SQL Language. And it can help prevent strange results from being returned to the average user. Read on to see how and why this addition to your queries can help ensure more "ordered" results 🙂
2004-05-19
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By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, Meagan Longoria, who graciously agreed to help...
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In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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