2024-01-17
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2024-01-10
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2023-11-27
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It is strange that one can ask simple questions about extended events or Hekaton at professional events and conferences without feeling embarrassed, yet nobody likes to ask vital questions about SQL Server primary keys and foreign keys. Fear not, here are 13 questions you were too shy to ask, answered.
2014-10-14
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I inherited a database that was getting large and not performing well. After adding primary keys life got better.
2014-06-30
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Every database developer uses keys, but without always understanding all the ramifications. They come with few hard and fast rules, but if you get them right from the start with a database design, the whole process of database development is simpler, and the result is likely to perform better. We asked Phil for advice, little knowing that the explanation might take a while.
2013-12-19
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Recently I was asked to find all the Primary keys that are not clustered Indexes in the database. I constructed the below script which will help us to locate the primary keys in the database which are not clustered index.
2013-09-18 (first published: 2013-09-04)
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2013-01-29
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This code helps in finding Primary Keys for all tables in a database.
2012-10-02 (first published: 2012-09-04)
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Output table of gaps in a primary key across multiple databases on same, remote and/or linked servers.
2012-02-13 (first published: 2011-08-12)
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