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Performance problem in SQL Server 2005

I have written stored procedure which simply read each row one by one and update the some column in same table.SP is running fine in SQL Server 2000 and completed within 5 minutes (around 5 million rows)But same SP in SQL Server 2005, its taking around more than one hour (for same number of rows)Note: […]

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2007-07-16

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Running Sum Query

Sometimes you need to calculate a running sum. Uses of this include adding a Month-To-Date column to a query of recent orders. I haven't seen anyone publish how to do this before (using this method).This query works by using the Row_Number() function and recursive query capability of SQL 2005.

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2007-07-16

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User Tables with Size  all DBs (SQL 2005 Only)

Hope this is helpful to someone.  This script will create a table and a stored procedure in the master database to gather and store table info for all datbases. The sp uses a temp table to hold the results returned by sp_spaceused, then transfers the information to the permanent table DatabaseTableSizes and adds the database […]

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2007-07-16 (first published: )

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