If the emailaddress is the primary means of accessing this table, then yeah, I'd make it the clustered index. If you have it as a unique non-clustered index, you'll have...

FWIW, I put two people through phone screens yesterday. Both had more than 8 years experience in SQL Server. Both were listed as senior level consultants. Neither could describe the...

select right('testfolder/test.aspx',len('testfolder/test.aspx') - charindex('/','testfolder/test.aspx'))

It's not hard & fast or black & white. In general terms, using a temp table is not bad. It depends on what you're doing with it and how it's...

I'd have to experiment a bit...

I'm not questioning you, per se, but surely there's a DBA "it depends" on the end of a statement that says maintaining extra indexes makes no difference at all. It...

abd (3/5/2008)

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Thank you Andras and Nisha for your replies

In fact Andras, yes, this is a short example of my sp

but the problem here i can not use the IF statement,...

This may come as a bit of a shock, but the usual method of performance tuning is not to try to eliminate the use of an index, but rather to...

In addition to what everyone else says, be sure to focus on carefulling picking the clustered index. Because you only get one, you want to be sure it's storing the...

The man was a legend. I was never a huge fan of D&D, preferring Call of Cthulhu & war games. While I didn't spend lots of time with his game...

Just a guess, but are there multiple transactions within the query?

Is that ELSE clause a documented standard? I clearly need to update my documents.

Almost too accurate to be funny.

Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, you should be able to employee a CASE statement, but it depends on where you mean to employee it.

I think, note that key word, it's because of a rounding error when doing an implicit conversion from the string to the float. The other two can do the implicit...