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By: SQL SERVER – Weekly Series – Memory Lane – #004 « SQL Server Journey with SQL Authority

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:31:34 +0000

[...] Understanding Table Hints with Examples Hints are options and strong suggestions specified for enforcement by the SQL Server query processor on DML statements. The hints override any execution plan the query optimizer might select for a query. The SQL Server Query optimizer is a very smart tool and it makes a better selection of execution plan. Suggesting hints to the Query Optimizer should be attempted when absolutely necessary and by experienced developers who know exactly what they are doing (or in development as a way to experiment and learn). [...]

By: neha

neha — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:46:20 +0000

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By: SQL SERVER – Database Worst Practices – New Town and New Job and New Disasters Journey to SQLAuthority

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:32:59 +0000

[...] This hint is used when certain kind of locking mechanism of tables has to be controlled. SQL Server query optimizer always puts the appropriate kind of lock on tables, when any of the Transact SQL operations SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT or MERGE is used. There are certain cases when the developer knows when and where to override the default behavior of the locking algorithm, and these hints are useful in those scenarios. (Read more here) [...]

By: Muhammad Imran

Muhammad Imran — Mon, 23 May 2011 07:31:10 +0000

I was looking for some easy explanation to hints and found this article very helpful. …. Thanks Pinal

Regards
Muhammad Imran

By: Manoj Kumar

Manoj Kumar — Thu, 19 May 2011 05:40:45 +0000

Very usefull Article in Real Practice..

Thanks
Manoj

By: Rajesh Reddy

Rajesh Reddy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:16:59 +0000

Hello Sir,

Above mentioned that “HINT” is used to perform DML Operations in more than one table.

the following sql query generates 7 table names those are having same column name(fieldname).

select name from sys.tables where Object_id in
(select Object_id from sys.columns where name =’FieldName’)

i want single delete query to delete fieldname column name value in 7 tables using “HINT” (or ) any another way.

and is this way secure or not.

By: Ganapathi

Ganapathi — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:53:42 +0000

Hi,

Very Nice Article. Thanks for keeping us Up-to-date

Thanks,
Ganapathi

By: vijayakumar

vijayakumar — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:30:47 +0000

Very Good Explanation…………….:)

By: Gangadhar Naidu

Gangadhar Naidu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:01:37 +0000

Hi Pinal,

You explained very well about hints. But you need to conclude which hint is better.

By: Saurabh Wajpe

Saurabh Wajpe — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:13:33 +0000

Too good!!
greate article.

will you please add article on ‘Exception/Error handling in SQL’. coz very less info is available on net for this topic.

It will be helpful for everyone. :)

Thanks in advance. :)

~Saurabh

By: Suhas

Suhas — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:38:21 +0000

Great article ……

Different kinds of hints available in SQL Server.

Thanks

SUHAS

By: Nitin Sharma

Nitin Sharma — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:27:04 +0000

Fundoo article i must say.!