Have an older workstation with only a little hard drive space? Tired of the SQL Server tools taking about a hundred megs on your most precious drive? If you answered yes to either one of those questions, then this quick tip is for you.
This article by Andy Warren outlines two ways you can reduce the number of log backups you do. Includes sample DMO code.
Detaching and attaching a database is an advanced trick that can be useful in anything from transporting your database to recovering from a disaster.
Need to rough up some bulk test data in a hurry? A carefully thought-out Cross Join could be the answer.
Want to take advantage of some of the benefits of using XML for data exchange, take a look at 'FOR XML' in SQL 2000.
This article by Andy Warren discusses both how to use the Public Role and how using Public may cause you more problems than it's worth. Great examples!
In this article, Brian Knight shows you how to convert data stored in DB2 to SQL Server using DTS.
A response from Great Plains Software on the use of the sa account in Dynamics software.
Were you aware that the act of populating a temporary table can cause system-wide bottlenecks on your server? Problems can occur both with SQL Server 6.5 and 7.0/2000 in different ways, and in this article Neil Boyle discusses how best to avoid them.
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SQL Server has added an Intelligent Query Processing feature called Memory Grant Feedback. In SQL Server 2022, this can be persisted across queries to improve the performance of future executions. In SQL Server 2022, when is memory grant feedback not persisted if the plan is evicted from cache? (choose 2)
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