One of the best ways to reduce the load on your server and increase application responsiveness is to reduce the number of "round trips" your application makes. This article by Andy Warren shows you a few ways to increase your performance by reducing round trips.
2005-07-15 (first published: 2002-01-24)
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SQL Profiler lets you log the results of a trace directly to a table, yet would you believe you can't save the trace as a script to do the exact same thing? Find out why and get some ideas on work arounds.
2002-01-07
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This webcast is scheduled for Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 10:00 AM Pacific time.During this session, we will show a practical approach to analyze performance tuning problems that involve Microsoft SQL Server lock monitoring data. We will briefly discuss sp_who2, sysprocesses, and syslocks.
2001-12-28
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There are times when we need to know that rows of data that meet specific criteria exist in a table. There are 2 basic ways to find this information: COUNT() and EXISTS(). Here are some examples.
2001-12-20
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In three previous articles Andy has done a very basic introduction to the ADO connection, command, and recordset objects. In this wrap up article he talks about how to use the power of ADO client side filtering and disconnected recordsets, then adds some code which shows how to combine all the objects. ADO is not simple, but Andy has done a good job in limiting his dicussion to the things you REALLY need to know about ADO to get started.
2001-12-07
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2001-11-02
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A look at files and filegroups in SQL Server 7.0, including some optimization tips.
2001-09-27
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Learn how to take advantage of AWE memory to boost the performance of SQL Server 2000.
2001-09-27
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From a DBA's point-of-view, the bigger the SQL Server box, the better. What would you consider to be the ultimate SQL Server box?
2001-08-10
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2001-07-24
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