In SQL Server 2005, there is a new feature called Plan Guides that can help out in some cases where you discover poorly performing queries that you don't have direct control over. Essentially, a Plan Guide allows you to add or modify query hints to queries on the fly, just before they are executed.
2007-02-26
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2007-02-21
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Stored procedures can be an effective way to handle conflicting needs, but it's not always so obvious how to write them so they both perform well and scale.
2008-01-30 (first published: 2007-02-05)
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I recently read a blog post on doing case-insensitive text searches on SQL Server 2005. The post said that an index on a computed column might be used even if the computed column itself wasn't used in the WHERE clause. I was curious to test that and see how far I might take it.
2007-01-29
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Using hints in a query is something that most DBAs don't ever seem to bother with, but when they do, NOLOCK seems to be their hint of choice. Wayne Fillis brings us a detailed examination of how this particular hint actually affects the performance of your system.
2017-02-02 (first published: 2007-01-24)
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How should you approach indexing your database? Do you have a good strategy for deciding which indicies to create and on which columns? Aaron Ingold brings us a great article discussing these very topics that is likely to become a must read for many DBAs.
2007-12-24 (first published: 2007-01-08)
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SQL Server guru David Poole takes a look at the different integer data types and the impact of each of those on your database.
2007-12-10 (first published: 2006-12-18)
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The benefits of SQL Server 2005's new snapshot isolation feature are well known, but SQL Server developers also need to understand the downstream ramifications of snapshot isolation.
2006-12-11
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Most SQL Server programmers know to use the SET NOCOUNT command to prevent the number of rows message from being returned to the client. But how does this affect performance? Does it make sense to qualify the owner on your objects? SQL Server guru David Poole brings us some performance analysis of how your stored procedures perform.
2007-12-07 (first published: 2006-12-11)
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This document describes the problem and the workaround in SQL Server 2000, and the solution and recommendation in SQL Server 2005.
2006-12-08
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By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
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Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
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