2010-05-06
4,061 reads
Indexing
Proactive Database Index Creation
Indexes help your application find your data quickly and provide users with a well performing application, while minimizing server resources. This article discusses indexing guidelines related to join tables and covering indexes.
2010-04-13
3,989 reads
SQL Server Column Considerations and Column Placement
Determining which columns to select for your indexes is critical. Having a little knowledge of how your application is using your database columns and how SQL Server processes indexes helps you make good decisions when you create your indexes.
2010-03-29
3,850 reads
2015-02-12 (first published: 2010-03-12)
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2010-03-10
4,327 reads
Index Seeks, Scans, and Lookups
This script may help identify tables impacted by frequently-occurring scans.
2010-11-02 (first published: 2010-02-04)
3,914 reads
2010-01-19
4,051 reads
Database Indexing Development Lifecycle...Say What?
Creating good indexes on your database doesn't happen by mistake--you need to have a plan. Greg Larsen shows you how, beginning with a discussion on the indexing development lifecycle.
2010-01-15
3,807 reads
Data searches that leverage existing indexes
Recent installments of our SQL Server 2005 Express Edition series have been discussing its implementation of Full Text Indexing. This article focuses on data searches, which leverage existing indexes, taking into account such features as noise words and thesaurus files.
2010-01-07
2,426 reads
Top 10 steps to optimize data access in SQL Server. Part I (Use Indexing)
’ll focus on the issues that you need to follow to make sure that you have done everything that you could do to optimize the data access codes you have written or you are going to write in future. The Database Administrators (DBA) also has great roles to play in optimizing and tuning the database performance. But, optimization scopes that fall into a DBA’s area are out of scope for these articles.
2009-12-29
5,922 reads
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers