What you usually see in the STATISTICS is the time on the server. It doesn't include time to move the data to your machine or time to display the graphics....

2005 uses SMO.

Several people have commented that they use NOLOCk or setting the isolation level because they're in a read only environment. Have any of them considered setting their database to read...

Just an idea. Buy vs. Build always has trade-offs in either direction.

There are other text indexing products out there. Shop around.

Is there an INNER JOIN involved to arrive at the data being selected. Join criteria is evaluated prior to the WHERE clause and you can sometimes move things from the...

If you're going for cheap, then you just need to set up full text indexing that comes with SQL Server 2005. Otherwise, I found this information on the Google site:

Are you kidding? Set logic is bloody difficult. I have a hard time wrapping my brain around it almost daily. I just know that I have to take the approach...

Just to start with, no:

SELECT * FROM ... LIKE 'Asp.net%'

will only find data that is starts with Asp.net. If you want to search in the middle of a string you...

It's not so much the database that's set oriented, although that's a big part of the issue. It's that TSQL is set oriented. Especially 2005 with common table expressions &...

I agree with Ms. Shaw. Who wouldn't. You may also want to consider using a unique constraint:

ALTER TABLE [x]

ADD CONSTRAINT [y]

UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED ([emailaddress],[password]) ON [PRIMARY]

Then you get the index suggested...

Now that's sweet. I had not known of this one prior to today. Thanks for posting it.

Nice choice. Beats a cursor in most situations.

Crud I hate that. My first response went into the ether and my second got posted so I look like a schmuck. Sorry about that. What I said was:

Generating objects...

Oops, should have added, SMO means SQL Management Objects. It's in the BOL, including decent (if not good) references & samples.

Based on what you're suggesting, you might want to look at doing a little SMO programming. You can quite simply generate a CREATE script for various objects from there.