More than likely it filters the tables and then combines the results. But, you should look at the execution plan. That will tell you precisely what happens.

This is how Microsoft suggests you get that job done.

There are several different tools from various vendors that advertise this feature, but frankly, they're either weak or dangerous. I wouldn't recommend using any of them at this point in...

Those are ANSI standard settings. I'd say it's a good practice to have them on, but I don't think you'll see performance and indexing changes from having them enabled.

What performance...

Perry Whittle (8/17/2011)

not available in SQL Server 2005, you will need...

The end of the backup process marks transactions as rollforward or rollback depending on if they're completed or not when the backup finishes. So you can get both situations, the...

The size of the transaction log is usually reflective of the size of the transactions. Have you tried monitoring the freespace in the tran log during the index rebuild. I...

A server side trace capturing a reasonable number of columns and events (depending on the events, statement level execs for example would be bad) will not be noticeable on most...

Or Team Foundation Services, or Vault, or SVN... anything but VSS.

I'd suggest doing a search online for Bill of Materials database designs. There are a bunch out there because it's a common problem. Use one of them as the basis...

Wow, I didn't even know DBGhost was still around.

Getting your database into source control is actually pretty easy. The hard part is establishing a disciplined development and deployment process around...

If you don't create tables with FILESTREAM, why set it up on the database at all?

Just remember that while an identity value does uniquely identify a row, it doesn't uniquely identify it for the business. So, just as an example, you need to store first...

In general, throw disks at the problem. Assuming a reasonably well tuned set of queries, good cpu and enough memory, the most likely issue with that much data is I/O,...

Statistics are stored with the database. They will be the same on the restored database as they were on the backed up database. This is true even between versions, except,...