SQLAuthority News – 1200th Post – An Important Milestone
Today is the last day of 2009 and this is my 1200th post! This year had been a wonderful year for me. I was actively involved with the community, and there were a lot of occasions where I could work along with IT professionals to resolve their issues in projects.…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Get Date of All Weekdays or Weekends of the Year
Today’s article is created based on wonderful contribution from Tejas Shah. Tejas is very prominent SQL Expert and .NET wizard. He has answered the query of a reader on this blog who raised the following question: how to generate the date for all the Sundays in the upcoming year. Tejas…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Difference Temp Table and Table Variable – Effect of Transaction
Few days ago I wrote an article on the myth of table variable stored in the memory—it was very well received by the community. Read complete article here: SQL SERVER – Difference TempTable and Table Variable – TempTable in Memory a Myth. Today, I am going to write an article…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Download FREE SQL SERVER Express Edition and Service Pack 1
Here is the quick link from where SQL Server 2008 Express Edition can be downloaded. Download SQL Server 2008 Express Edition You can download it with many additional details as described in following image. Click on above link to go to page and select desired version. Additionally, please install SQL…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Whitepaper SQL Server 2008 Full-Text Search: Internals and Enhancements
SQL Server 2008 Full-Text Search: Internals and Enhancements SQL Server Technical Article Writer: Fernando Azpeitia Lopez, Microsoft Corp. Published: July 2008 Database systems must go beyond the traditional realm of relational data by covering an increasing amount and variety of unstructured and semistructured information, be it speech, documents, XML, bioinformatics,…
Read MoreSQL Authority News – Training SQL Server Query Optimization And Performance Tuning
Earlier this year we had offered Query Optimization course and it was sold out in minutes. Due to popular demand we are offering the same course in the very first week of next year. The title of the course is ‘MS SQL Server Query Optimization And Performance Tuning‘.
This three day course is an intensive course designed to give attendees an in-depth look at the query optimization and performance tuning concepts and methods found in SQL Server. This course is designed to prepare the SQL Server developers and administrators for a transition to SQL Server while discussing best practices for a variety of topics.
SQL SERVER – ORDER BY Clause and TOP WITH TIES
Recently, on this blog, I published an article on SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY; this article was very well received because of the observation made in it. One of the comments suggested the workaround was to use clause WITH TIES along with TOP…
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