It is always more efficient to maintain referential integrity by using constraints rather than triggers. Sometimes it isn't obvious how to do this. Until a recent idea by Alex Kuznetsov, the history table presented problems for checking data that were difficult to solve with constraints. Joe Celko explains.
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Given that disk storage has come down substantially in price over recent years, will RAID 5 continue to be relevant as a storage configuration for databases?
A planning guide for the implementation of TDE in SQL Server.
A table contains the list of modifications made to each card. Your job is to write a query that shows the first number, current number (most recent) and the number of changes made.
This article demonstrates the relative merits of natural and surrogate keys and benchmarks their performance in different scenarios.
It’s important to profile your database queries to see what happens in response to Entity Framework queries and other data access activities, says Julie Lerman, who gives you the details on several profiling options to improve you coding.
This article presents a possible solution to the raffle logistics employed in SQL Server user group meetings around the world.
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In the Database Engine, when a deadlock is detected, what does the detection interval shrink to (in time)?
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