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SQL SERVER – Pre-Code Review Tips – Tips For Enforcing Coding Standards

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Database, DBA, SQL Coding Standards, SQL Scripts
Each organization has its own coding standards and enforcement rules. It is sometime difficult for DBAs to change the code following code review, as it may affect many different layers of the application. In large organizations, many stored procedures are written and modified every day. It is smart to keep…
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SQL SERVER – 2005 – Sample Example of RANKING Functions – ROW_NUMBER, RANK, DENSE_RANK, NTILE

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Ranking Functions, SQL Function, SQL Scripts
I have not written about this subject for long time, as I strongly believe that Book On Line explains this concept very well. SQL Server 2005 has total of 4 ranking function. Ranking functions return a ranking value for each row in a partition. All the ranking functions are non-deterministic.…
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SQL SERVER – 2005 – Connection Property of SQL Server Management Studio SSMS

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Utility, SSMS

Following images quickly explain how to connect to SQL Server with different connection property. It can be useful when connection properties need to be changed for SQL Server when connected. I use this in my company when I connect to one of our servers using named pipes instead of TCP/IP. Let us learn about Connection Property of SQL Server Management Studio SSMS.

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SQLAuthority News – Latest Interesting Downloads and Articles

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
Database, SQL Download, SQL White Papers
White Paper: Precision Considerations for Analysis Services Users This white paper covers accuracy and precision considerations in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. For example, it is possible to query Analysis Services with similar queries and obtain two different answers. While this appears to be a bug, it actually is due…
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SQL SERVER – 2005 – Open SSMS From Command Prompt – sqlwb.exe Example

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Shortcut, SQL Utility
This article is written by request and suggestion of Sr. Web Developer at my organization. Due to nature of this article most of the content are referred from Book On-Line. sqlwb command prompt utility which opens SQL Server Management Studio. sqlwb command does not run queries from command prompt. sqlcmd…
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SQL SERVER – 2005 – Different Types of Cache Objects

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Cache, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

About two months ago I reviewed book SQL Server 2005 Practical Troubleshooting: The Database Engine. Yesterday I received a request from reader, if I can write something from this book, which is not common knowledge in DBA community. I really like the idea, however I must respect the Authors copyright about this book. This book is unorthodox SQL book, it talks about things which can get you to fix your problem faster, if problem is discussed in book. There are few places it teaches behind the scene SQL stories.

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SQL SERVER – 2005 – Explanation of TRY…CATCH and ERROR Handling With RAISEERROR Function

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts
One of the developer at my company thought that we can not use RAISEERROR function in new feature of SQL Server 2005 TRY…CATCH. When asked for explanation he suggested SQL SERVER – 2005 Explanation of TRY…CATCH and ERROR Handling article as excuse suggesting that I did not give example of…
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