If Exists (Select 1...) vs If Exists (select * ...)
If exists is a well known way to improve performance because it returns as soon as it matches a single...
2007-10-21
1,834 reads
Blog Posts
SQLSaturday Update - 215 Registered!
We're at 215 registered with 3 weeks to the big day! This week I'll be having the last planning meeting...
2007-10-21
1,459 reads
ZFS & Hard Drive Defects
The most recent ACM Queue Magazine (Vol 5 #6, Sep/Oct 2007) had two really interesting articles. The first was about...
2007-10-21
1,500 reads
Suggestions for PASS Published on SSC
I wrote this article shortly after returning from the PASS 2007 Summit and tried hard to come up with ideas...
2007-10-18
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Suggested Reading: Deadlock Notifications in SQL Server 2005
Here's a good article on setting up Deadlock Notifications in SQL Server 2005 written by Patrick LeBlanc.
2007-10-16
1,482 reads
The Troubleshooting List & Replication Statement Delivery Options
All of these are new articles that have gone up on SSC recently. The troubleshooting one was my attempt to...
2007-10-14
627 reads
Bill Graziano Visits oPASS & JSSUG
Bill Graziano (main man at SQLTeam.com, consultant, and VP of PASS) was in town recently to speak at both the...
2007-10-13
682 reads
Schema as Folder
I'm catching up on my reading today and ran across an article from Kathi Kellenberger called Understanding the Difference between...
2007-10-13
603 reads
Partitioning Part 2 Posted on SSC
I'm a couple days late updating the blog, the article went up on Mon.
2007-10-11
571 reads
Views, Temp Tables, Data Types - Aha!
I spent last week onsite with a client teaching performance tuning and it was really a good week. Great company...
2007-10-08
606 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...
Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information
By Brian Kelley
For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday...
Forums
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to the 1st 21 rows?
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to...
Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column
Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...
any reason to avoid asking ssis to extract files from ftp
hi we have to replace talend which generally was used to move files. talend's...
Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers