I often get asked what is Database Collation in SQL Server and if there are some good articles related to Collation. Here are some articles.
SQLAuthority News – Learn New Things – Self Criticism
I came across two interesting web pages and I really thought they had very good articles. I would like to share that with my blog readers today. I am just listing the abstract here. Please read the original articles they are much more interesting and enjoyable. Readers if you find…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Find Nth Highest Salary of Employee – Query to Retrieve the Nth Maximum value
This question is quite a popular question and it is interesting that I have been receiving this question every other day. I have already answer this question here. “How to find Nth Highest Salary of Employee”. Please read my article here to find Nth Highest Salary of Employee table :…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 Management Pack Download
The SQL Server Management Pack monitors the availability and performance of SQL Server 2000 and 2005 and can issue alerts for configuration problems. Availability and performance monitoring is done using synthetic transactions. In addition, the Management Pack collects Event Log alerts and provides associated knowledge articles with additional user details,…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Popular Articles of SQLAuthority Blog
I receive this email quite often that which are most popular articles on my blog. There is already list on right navigation bar of my weekly popular article. If you are interested to know which are most popular articles as per readers and my opinion here are two listed. SQL…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Introduction to Heap Structure – What is Heap?
Sometime simple questions are very interesting. A day ago, jr. developer asked me question : What is Heap? In SQL Server 2005 data is stored within tables. Data within a table is grouped together into allocation unites based on their column data types, what it means is one kind of…
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SQL SERVER – 2005 – List All Column With Identity Key In Specific Database
Question I received in Email : How to list all the columns in the database which are used as identity key in my database?
SQL SERVER – Introduction to sys.dm_exec_query_optimizer_info
Many times when I am just bored I surf Book On Line for SQL Server 2005. Almost all the time I find something new which makes me believe that I have lot to learn and there are so many things I am not aware of. Today I found system catalog view sys.dm_exec_query_optimizer_info. I just enjoyed reading about it and now I will share this with you.
SQL SERVER – 2005 – Find Index Fragmentation Details – Slow Index Performance
Just a day ago, while using one index I was not able to get the desired performance from the table where it was applied. I just looked for its fragmentation and found it was heavily fragmented. After I reorganized index it worked perfectly fine. Here is the quick script I…
Read MoreSQLAuthority News – Few Links About SQLAuthority
I have listed few important links of SQLAuthority.com, I still receive some repeated questions. I do my best to respond to all of my readers, however, most of the time I am sending them link to one of my previously written article. Many times most of the answers can be…
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