Starting and Stopping SQL Server Part 4
Continuing with his series on working with SQL Server, Andy Warren looks at how long it can take to start or restart the services and why.
2005-12-29
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Administration
2005-12-27
1,215 reads
Speeding up the VS/SQL User Interface Load Time
A frustrating thing for those who open and close Query Analyzer all day long about the new Visual Studio interface for SQL Server is the load speed. This quick blog shows you how to speed up the load time with a switch change.
2005-12-22
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2005-12-15
1,638 reads
Starting and Stopping SQL Server Part 3
Continuing with his series, Andy Warren looks at what it means for SQL Server 2000 command line parameters as well as checkpointing with this service.
2005-12-15
9,834 reads
Controlling Transactions and Locks Part 5: SQL 2005 Snapshots
This article will explore the new Row Versioning feature in SQL 2005, and the two new transaction isolation levels that take advantage of it: Read Committed Snapshot and Snapshot Isolation.
2005-12-12
2,350 reads
Arriving at Database Growth Factor in SQL Server 2000
It is highly recommended that you not rely on system tables in your application as the values and meanings many change between versions. But for an experienced person that digs into the system often and needs quick answers, these system tables may be a great source of information. Suresh Maganti brings us his recent adventure in finding a reliable way to determine the growth factor of a database.
2005-12-06
11,345 reads
Using SQL Server 2005 sqlcmd Utility
SQL Server 2005 provides some new command line utilities. One such utility is "sqlcmd". The sqlcmd utility is used to run adhoc queries interactively from a command prompt window, or can be used to execute a script containing T-SQL statements. The sqlcmd utility is a great improvement over osql and isql of older releases of SQL Server. In this article, I will explain some of the features this new command line utility brings to administering SQL Server.
2005-12-02
1,391 reads
XML Indexes in SQL Server 2005
Use the relational query engine in SQL Server 2005 to make a single query plan for the SQL and XQuery parts of your queries, and make the implementation of XML queries fast and easy to predict and tune.
2005-12-02
1,717 reads
Starting and Stopping SQL Server Part 2
Continuing with his series, Andy Warren looks at what it means for SQL Server 2000 to run as a service and some of the options you have for starting, stopping, and restarting your server.
2005-12-01
11,503 reads
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Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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