Vinay Thakur


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Hi,
Yesterday while talking to my friend, he reviewed my blog and suggested that I was having so many spelling...

2009-10-13

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Select count(*)

Today I was reading(I always read Paul Randal).
http://www.sqlskills.com/BLOGS/PAUL/post/Which-index-will-SQL-Server-use-to-count-all-rows.aspx
I learned that whenever you query select count(*) it will select the the...

2009-10-09

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