In this article, Brad McGehee takes a brief look at four resource intensive queries that are running on the SQL Server instance that runs the SQLServerCentral.com website. Don't miss out on the competition in this article.
In a guest editorial, Rodney Landrum offers a light-hearted guide to role of each member of the cast in a typical SQL code deployment.
A discrete list of database objects is extracted from SSRS using SQL, SSIS, and RegExtractor in order to identify reports that might break when a schema upgrade is performed.
Steve Jones talks about the problems of outages, and why we ought to perhaps introduce failure into our systems to help us learn to cope with them.
Are Common Language Runtime routines in SQL Server faster or slower than the equivalent T-SQL code? How would you go about testing the relative performance objectively? Solomon Rutzky creates a test framework to try to answer the question and comes up with some surprising results that you can check for yourself.
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Continuing with his series on monitoring your SQL Servers, David Bird now looks a a way to fin those long running, active jobs.
Write your database backup to multiple files. In addition to writing your database backup to one file you have the ability to write to multiple files at the same time and therefore split up the workload. The advantage to doing this is that the backup process can run using multiple threads and therefore finish faster as well as having much smaller files that can be moved across the network or copied to a CD or DVD.
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When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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