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SQL SERVER – Parallelism – Row per Processor – Row per Thread – Thread 0

July 11, 2010

Earlier I had posted article answering question. “When SQL Server executes any query on multiple processors, do all processors process equal numbers of rows?” Read the answer over SQL SERVER – Parallelism – Row per Processor – Row per Thread. In the same article, I had asked back to readers as…

SQLAuthority News – Milestone – 1400th Post and Why do I blog

July 10, 2010

Pinal Dave

Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

I am very glad today that I have reached milestone of 1400th post. I was looking back to my journey which I started on Nov 1, 2006 and I feel that it has been long way. I have noticed a lot of changes in myself too. Earlier, I used to…

SQLAuthority News – I am a MVP and I Love SQL Server

July 9, 2010

Pinal Dave

Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

MVP, SQL User Group

I am very glad that I received this prestigious award for the third time in a row. I am very thankful to Microsoft for introducing this wonderful technology of SQL Server. I enjoy getting involved with the community, which also helps in my self-improvement as well. I would like to…

SQL SERVER – The Self Join – Inner Join and Outer Join

July 8, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Joins, SQL Scripts

Self Join has always been an note-worthy case. It is interesting to ask questions on self join in a room full of developers. I often ask – if there are three kind of joins, i.e.- Inner Join, Outer Join and Cross Join; what type of join is Self Join? The…

SQL SERVER – Upper Case Shortcut SQL Server Management Studio

July 7, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Server Management Studio

Few days ago, I received code which is very similar to code shown below. select * from Sales.SalesOrderDetail where ProductID > 777 I am not the guy who go crazy for formatting but I do appreciate proper coding. I like if the code was formatted like below. SELECT * FROM…

SQLAuthority News – I am Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)

July 6, 2010

Pinal Dave

Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQL Training

I am a Microsoft Certified Trainer and I am very much proud of it. Because I am a MCT, I have the support of great community leaders and trainers who help me constantly to improve in what I do. I have many Microsoft Certifications and I constantly try to take…

SQL SERVER – PowerShell Version Info

July 5, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Powershell, SQL Scripts

I have multiple computer systems at home. I have previously taken a picture of my home office and published it here. Also, I recently had a scenario where I was listing a PowerShell version installed in my computer systems. While searching online, I found two different commands that can determine…

SQL SERVER – Index Levels, Page Count, Record Count and DMV – sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats

July 4, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DMV, SQL Index, SQL Scripts

In the recent Query Tuning project, one of the developers who were helping me out in the project asked me if there is any way that he could know how many pages are used by any Index, and if there is any way I could demonstrate the different levels of…

SQL SERVER – View XML Query Plans in SSMS as Graphical Execution Plan

July 3, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Execution Plan, SQL Scripts, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL XML

Earlier I wrote a blog post on SQL SERVER – Parallelism – Row per Processor – Row per Thread, where I mentioned the XML Plan. As a follow up on the blog post, I received the request to send the same execution plan so that the blog readers can also…

SQL SERVER – Parallelism – Row per Processor – Row per Thread

July 2, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Server Management Studio

Here is a question I received via email: “When SQL Server executes any query on multiple processors, do all processors process equal numbers of rows?” I find this one very interesting. I quickly wrote down a query which can run on multiple CPU in my machine. My laptop has a…