Two simple commands that can be a big help in performance tuning.
The first thing that always comes to mind when discussing performance tuning is query plans and rightly so. They are...
2014-09-02
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SQLStudies
Finding a job!
I’ve been told over the years that I’m pretty good at finding jobs. I mean in the last 25 years...
2014-09-04 (first published: 2014-08-27)
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The amazing never shrinking heap
This is a quick demo of a little “trick” with heaps I’ve known about for a couple of years. However...
2014-08-25
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Two years!
Two years ago today I began my blog with a post about the DEFAULT keyword. I set out with the...
2014-08-20
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Generating a restore script
In order to speed up our backups on a large database our team decided to stripe the backup files. In...
2014-08-25 (first published: 2014-08-18)
7,527 reads
More than sp_help
If you have worked with SQL Server for very long you have probably run across the extremely useful system function...
2014-08-14
1,513 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #57: SQL Family
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday topic is SQL Family and is brought to us by Jeffrey Verheul (b/t). It’s an amazing...
2014-08-12
602 reads
SchemaBinding – What & Why
What
When you use the SchemaBinding keyword while creating a view or function you bind the structure of any underlying tables...
2014-08-06
1,128 reads
Deny vs Revoke
Quick quiz. Which of these two commands is the opposite of GRANT?
DENYREVOKE
Well lets start with some definitions
GRANT – Grants permissions on...
2014-08-12 (first published: 2014-08-04)
8,533 reads
The clustered index columns are in all of the non clustered indexes.
Did you know that whatever columns you pick as your clustered index will be included in any non clustered indexes...
2014-08-07 (first published: 2014-07-30)
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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