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SQLAuthority News – Subscribe to Blog – Search a Blog

November 27, 2009

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

Quite often I get request if I send blog post in newsletter or through email. Here are few important links. You can for sure get email of my post, however, I strongly suggest to visit blog as if there are any updates in my post they are reflected on blog.…

SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Performance Guide

November 26, 2009

Pinal Dave

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

Business Intelligence, SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL White Papers

Because Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services query and processing performance tuning is a fairly broad subject, this white paper organizes performance tuning techniques into the following three segments. Enhancing Query Performance – Query performance directly impacts the quality of the end user experience. As such, it is the primary benchmark…

SQL SERVER – Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column

November 25, 2009

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

Best Practices, CSV, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL XML

I use following script very often and I realized that I have never shared this script on this blog before. Creating Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column is a very common task, and we all do this many times a day. Let us see the example that I use frequently and its output.

SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY

November 24, 2009

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL View

Today we will go over a very simple, but interesting subject. The following error is quite common if you use ORDER BY while creating any view: Msg 1033, Level 15, State 1, Procedure something, Line 5 The ORDER BY clause is invalid in views, inline functions, derived tables, subqueries, and…

SQL SERVER – A Common Design Problem – Should the Primary Key Always be a Clustered Index

November 23, 2009

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Constraint and Keys

In SQL Server, whenever we create any key, a Primary Key automatically creates clustered index on the same. I like this feature and I use this feature every now and then. The question is does the change of any column as Primary Key should also create a Clustered Index? Moreover,…

SQL SERVER – Remove Bookmark Key Lookup – 4 Different Ideas

November 22, 2009

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Index

I quite often get request to summarized my ideas about Removing bookmark lookup on this blog post. Bookmark lookup or key lookup are bad for any query as they force query engine to lookpup corresponding row in the table or index as it does not find required data from just…

SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2008 for Oracle DBA

November 21, 2009

Pinal Dave

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

Database, DBA, MySQL, Oracle

This 15 modules, level 300 course provides students with the knowledge and skills to capitalize on their skills and experience as an Oracle DBA to manage a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 system. This workshop provides a quick start for the Oracle DBA to map, compare, and contrast the realm of…

SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Expert SQL Server 2008 Encryption by Michael Coles

November 20, 2009

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Server Encryption, SQLAuthority Book Review

Expert SQL Server 2008 Encryption (Paperback) Michael Coles (Author), Rodney Landrum (Author) Link to Amazon “What is your opinion on encryption? What I mean is: In a world filled with data, how do you see encryption?” This is the precise question Michael Coles posed to me on March 3rd of…

SQL SERVER – Understanding Table Hints with Examples

November 19, 2009

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Joins, SQL Scripts

Introduction Today we have a very interesting subject to look at. I tried to look for help online but have not found any other documentation besides what we have from the Book Online. Let us try to understand what are the different kinds of hints available in SQL Server and…

SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table – A Puzzle to Find Index Size for Each Index on Table

November 18, 2009

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Puzzle, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure

It is very easy to find out some basic details of any table using the following Stored Procedure. USE AdventureWorks GO EXEC sp_spaceused [HumanResources.Shift] GO Above query will return following resultset The above SP provides basic details such as rows, data size in table, and Index size of all the…