When is it okay to let SQL Server to make a statistic for columns in your queries, and when should you take those statistics and make an index out of them? What I do is to test all of my procs, and if they generate system statistics (_WA_SYS%), then I add an index to the table for the column in the statistic. But is this a good practice?
A joint editorial this week from the Red Gate team looking back at the news of the week.
The next European PASS Conference will take place between the 14th - 16th of April 2008 in Neuss, Germany!
Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005 has been updated to fix the maintenance plans issue.
You have all read about why object qualification is important. You also must have heard of why stored Proc should not have sp_ as prefix to the name. Now let us proove if this is all true.
Although a few different options (Management Studio, system stored procedures, system views, custom scripts, etc.) exist to determine your permissions in SQL Server, in this tip we want to outline the functionality from the fn_my_permissions table valued function.
How much of a contract for servicing SQL Server should we expect? Has Microsoft broken an implied contract with us?
How much of a contract for servicing SQL Server should we expect? Has Microsoft broken an implied contract with us?
How much of a contract for servicing SQL Server should we expect? Has Microsoft broken an implied contract with us?
The Trash Destination is now available for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The Trash Destination and this article came from early experiences of using SSIS and community feedback at the time. When developing a package it is very useful to have a destination adapter that does nothing but consume rows with no setup requirement.
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What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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