Community Tech Days are here Tomorrow in Ahmedabad on Oct 3, 2009. I will be presenting the session ‘SQL Server 2008 – The Other Side of Index’. I will be available there whole day if you want to meet and discuss SQL. I will be starting my session with following cartoon. You will have to attend the session in person to see what I am going to cover in the session.
SQL SERVER – SQL Server Management Studio and Client Statistics
Client Statistics is very important. Many a time, people relate queries execution plan with query cost. This is not a good comparison. Both are different parameters, and they are not always related. It is possible that the query cost of any statement is less, but the amount of the data…
Read MoreSQLAuthority News – Community Tech Days – Oct 3, 2009 – SQL Server 2008 – The Other Side of Index
Microsoft Community Tech Days are here! Dive deep into the world of Microsoft technologies at the Community TechDays and get trained on the latest from Microsoft. Community Tech Days are coming to Ahmedabad on Oct 3, 2009. I will be presenting the session ‘SQL Server 2008 – The Other Side…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Execution Plan and Results of Aggregate Concatenation Queries
Working with SQL Server has never seems to be monotonous – no matter how long one has worked with it. Quite often, I come across some excellent comments that I feel like acknowledging them as blog posts. Recently, I wrote an article on SQL SERVER – Execution Plan and Results…
Read MoreSQLAuthority News – Download IIS Database Manager
IIS Database Manager allows you to easily manage your local and remote databases from within IIS Manager. IIS Database Manager automatically discovers databases based on the Web server or application configuration and also provides the ability to connect to any database on the network. Once connected, IIS Database Manager provides…
Read MoreSQLAuthority News – FILESTREAM Storage in SQL Server 2008
This white paper describes the FILESTREAM feature of SQL Server 2008, which allows storage of and efficient access to BLOB data using a combination of SQL Server 2008 and the NTFS file system. This white paper is Written By: Paul S. Randal (SQLskills.com) Read the white paper here. Reference :…
Read MoreSQLAuthority News – FIX : An error occurred while executing this command. If this error persists, please contact your Live Meeting administrator.
Recently, while I was scheduling a live meeting for one of my online training sessions, I kept receiving the following error message repeatedly. I had never encountered this type of error before, and despite searching online for a long time, I could not solve this problem. After several failed attempts,…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Outer Join in Indexed View – Question to Readers
Today I have question for you. Just a day ago I was reading whitepaper Improving Performance with SQL Server 2008 Indexed Views. Following is question and answer I read in the white paper. Q. Why can’t I use OUTER JOIN in an indexed view? A. Rows can logically disappear from…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Index on Index View Used in Similar Query
Recently, I was working on an optimization project for one of the large organizations. While working on one of the queries, we came across a very interesting observation. We found that there was a query on the base table and when the query was run, it used the index, which…
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SQL SERVER – Insert Values of Stored Procedure in Table – Use Table Valued Function
I recently got many emails requesting to write a simple article. I also got a request to explain different ways to insert the values from a stored procedure into a table. Let us quickly look at the conventional way of doing the same with Table Valued Function.