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Performance Comparison – IN vs BETWEEN – SQL in Sixty Seconds #127

October 2, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL Operator, SQL Performance, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Yesterday I blogged about SQL SERVER – Performance Comparison – BETWEEN, IN, and Operators. Following that, I got many emails about the topic.

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BETWEEN vs IN in SQL Server: Which One Reads Less?

October 1, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Index, SQL Operator, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

BETWEEN vs IN looks like a style choice, and it is not. This post builds a demo table and measures BETWEEN, the two operators and an IN list with and without an index. It shows that BETWEEN and the operators share one plan, that IN seeks once for every value and that sparse values change the question.

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SQL SERVER – Unicode Storage and UTF8 Version Limits

September 30, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Datatype, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String

nchar and nvarchar are usual types for Unicode character strings in SQL Server. Reader questions prompted my datatype summary.

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Varchar vs Nvarchar – Storing Non-English Characters – SQL in Sixty Seconds #126

September 29, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Video
SQL Datatype, SQL in Sixty Seconds, SQL String

Let us learn how to store non-English Characters in SQL Server tables. You will learn in this video the major difference between VARCHAR and NVARCHAR.

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non-English

SQL SERVER – Storing a Non-English String in Table – Unicode Strings

September 28, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Datatype, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, Unicode

Yesterday I had a meeting with my client Performance Health Check, and they wanted to know how to store a non-English string in a table. 

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How to Get Volume Mount Point for SQL Server Files? – Interview Question of the Week #295

September 27, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
Computer Network, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: How to Get Volume Mount Point for SQL Server Files? 

Answer: I was asked this question by my client during the recent Health Check.

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SQL Agent Operators and Notifications: Who Gets the Alert

September 26, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Database Mail, DBA, SQL Monitoring, SQL Server Agent

Configure SQL Agent operators, connect jobs and alerts to email notifications, test delivery, and verify notification evidence.

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