Employ Metadata to Enhance Search Filters
Discover how to use metadata for pooling information already resident in an application to create a flexible search interface that reduces complexity and increases users' productivity.
Monitoring Stored Procedure Performance with sys.dm_exec_cached_plans
This article will show you how to use the sys.dm_exec_cached_plans DMV to monitor the performance of stored procedures
Not In v Not Equal
Is it better to use NOT IN() or <> in a T-SQL query? Ken Johnson had the question put to him and decided to investigate them both. Read about how these two functions perform.
XML Workshop XV - Accessing FOR XML results with ADO.NET
The next installment of Jacob Sebastian's great series on XML looks at how a .NET application might consume XML data returned from SQL Server.
Data Generator Source Adapter
The Data Generator Source is now available for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. This component needs little explanation. It generates random integer (DT_I4) and string (DT_WSTR) data and places them in the pipeline.
Implementing Table Inheritance in SQL Server
When designing a database, we sometimes come across situations where there are multiple types of entities that we are modeling, but we'd like them to all have certain attributes or relations in common. Using "sub-type" tables is a simple way to implement table inheritance in SQL Server.
Scaling Out
Scaling out is hard to do with SQL Server, but why doesn't Microsoft build a better solution?
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Virtual Machine Usage and Cost
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One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
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Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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