How To Get Table Row Counts Quickly And Painlessly

Use sysindexes\DMVs insead of select count(*) to retreive table row counts

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Building Code that Promotes Plan Re-usage

This article, the third in the T-SQL Best Practices series, discusses how to write your code to promote cached plan re-usage. Understanding how white space and comments impact whether a plan is cached or an existing plan is re-used can help you minimize the number of plans your application is caching.

Execute T-SQL Scripts in Parallel

Transact-SQL does not have a simple method to launch multiple parallel running scripts. This tool will change the game. It requires SQL Server 2005 or above.

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Sending multiple rows to the Database from an Application: Part II

In part 2 of this series, Mohd Nizamuddin looks at sending multiple rows to the database from an application using XML.

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SQL Joins

This article describes Join feature of SQL Server.

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