Another article from our own Chris Hedgate! This one looks at the different types of fragmentation that can exist inside your SQL Server and some ways you can go about minimizing them.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2004-05-10)
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Here's a little replacement for Query Analyzer that appears to provide most of the functions, plus a few more. While we haven't given it a full review, at first glance it appears to do the job. Plus there's NO INSTALL!!!! Always a plus for me.
2004-05-07
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2004-05-06
1,870 reads
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)
53,166 reads
What counters should you monitor to baseline your servers? Which ones for checking performance? It's an interesting question and one that always leads Steve Jones to a wide range of sources in print and on the web. Steve compiled his own list and finally has put some words around the list to give some justification of why they are chosen. Read on and see how this compares to your list (you do have a list don't you?).
2017-02-02 (first published: 2004-05-05)
55,622 reads
How many of you register a server in Enterprise Manager? Now how many of you click the "save password" box? Probably most of you. Are you aware of the security risks associated with this? James Travis looks at one of potential problems here and other security issues relating to SQL-DMO.
2004-05-04
7,611 reads
2004-05-03
1,833 reads
2004-04-28
1,734 reads
It's been some time and he apologizes. This next part of this series from Steve Jones looks at selective auditing changes to data on the server using a combination of methods presented in previous articles in the series. Read on if you have problems tracking changes to data on some tables, but don't want to implement a solution that tracks every change.
2004-04-28
12,820 reads
2004-04-22
1,984 reads
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In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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