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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This Friday Steve Jones has a non-work related, but fun poll. Let us know what your geeky media recommendations are this year.
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.
The third article in our series on normalization from Tom Thomson continues with an explanation on what constitutes third normal form.
Today Steve Jones tells you can implement telecommuting at your job and gives you a few ideas how to get it approved.
A wrap up from MVP and expert Gail Shaw on her experiences of training with SQLskills.
Steve Jones looks to the future of SQL Server and wonders if we ought to add a rowid to the internal structures.
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Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
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This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...
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