SQLAuthority News – PASS 2009 Sessions on Query Optimization and Performance Tuning

PASS Summit 2009 is now only 10 days away and I am very excited for the same. I can not wait to attend the summit as this is the most awaited conference of SQL Server in world. Everybody will be there and there will be something for everybody. My core…
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SQL SERVER – Change Collation of Database Column – T-SQL Script – Consolidating Collations – Extention Script

This document is created by Brian Cidern, he has written this excellent extension to SQL Expert who SQL SERVER – Change Collation of Database Column – T-SQL Script. His scripts are not only extremely helpful to achieve the task of consolidating collations in quick script. His script not only works…
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SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – Auditing in SQL Server 2008

Auditing in SQL Server 2008 SQL Server Technical Article Writer: Il-Sung Lee, Art Rask Technical Reviewer: Jack Richins, Rick Byham, Sameer Tejani, Al Comeau, JC Cannon Published: February 2009 With SQL Server Audit, SQL Server 2008 introduces an important new feature that provides a true auditing solution for enterprise customers.…
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SQL SERVER – Enable Automatic Statistic Update on Database

In one of the recent projects, I found out that despite putting good indexes and optimizing the query, I could not achieve an optimized performance and I still received an unoptimized response from the SQL Server. On examination, I figured out that the culprit was statistics. The database that I was trying to optimize had auto update of the statistics was disabled. Let us learn about how to Enable Automatic Statistic Update on Database.

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