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SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL in 10 Minutes

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
Database, DBA, SQLAuthority Book Review
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself) by Ben Forta Link to Amazon Short Review: If T-SQL (Transact-Structured Query Language) is foreign tongue to you, after reading this book, you will speak T-SQL. This book is SQL Server version of best-selling book Sams Teach…
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SQL SERVER – 2005 – Explanation and Script for Online Index Operations – Create, Rebuild, Drop

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server DBCC
SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition supports online index operations. Index operations are creating, rebuilding and dropping indexes. The question which I receive quite often – what is online operation? Is online operation is related to web, internet or local network? Online operation means when online operations are happening the database…
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SQL SERVER – 2005 – Difference and Similarity Between NEWSEQUENTIALID() and NEWID()

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts
NEWSEQUENTIALID() and NEWID() both generates the GUID of datatype of uniqueidentifier. NEWID() generates the GUID in random order whereas NEWSEQUENTIALID() generates the GUID in sequential order. Let us see example first demonstrating both of the function. USE AdventureWorks; GO ----Create Test Table for with default columns values CREATE TABLE TestTable…
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SQL SERVER – Insert Data From One Table to Another Table – INSERT INTO SELECT – SELECT INTO TABLE

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure
Following three questions are many times asked on this blog. How to insert data from one table to another table efficiently? How to insert data from one table using where condition to another table? How can I stop using cursor to move data from one table to another table? There…
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SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – Database Architecture and Implementation Discussion – New York, New Jersey Details

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
DBA, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Index, SQLAuthority Author Visit
Last weekend I visited New York City (NY) and Edison (NJ) to attend database architecture meeting with a big environmental technology firm. It was very interesting to meet CEO and few of the lead database administrators. Lots of database related things were discussed. I will list few of the points…
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