NonClustered Index Structure
Learn how the clustered index keys affect the non clustered index structure.
2018-06-01 (first published: 2016-04-11)
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Indexing
The DBA's Essential Index Monitoring and Maintenance Tasks
Indexes can be the most critical part of any database. they can drastically improve performance or they can ruin it. Wise management is the key to success.
2018-03-09 (first published: 2016-02-15)
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Index stats with key,included columns, size - all you can eat
Get total access,updates, rowlocks,pagelocks, stats date,rowcount for all tables or specific table by partition
2016-02-04 (first published: 2016-01-22)
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2016-01-08
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2015-12-16
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2015-11-09
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Strange Filtered Index Problem
What I thought was a strange filtered index problem but turned out to be a DB settings problem
2018-05-11 (first published: 2015-08-26)
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2015-10-08 (first published: 2015-07-02)
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The Importance of Database Indexing
In this article, James Munro demonstrates an example of a simple query without an index and then that same query again with the index. A simple introduction to database indexing.
2015-06-04
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2015-03-16
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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