A few days ago, I received following email from blog reader where the question was about the fastest way to restore database.
This blog post is written in response to T-SQL Tuesday hosted by Jorge Segarra. I have been very active using these Merge operations in my development. However, I have found out from my consulting work and friends that these amazing operations are not utilized by them most of the time. Here is my attempt to bring the necessity of using the Merge Operation to surface one more time.
In recent training one of the attendee asked if I can show a simple method to convert IN clause to EXISTS clause so it impacts performance. Here is the simple example.
When talking about SQL Azure the common complaint I hear is that the script generated from stand-along SQL Server database is not compatible with SQL Azure. This was true for some time for sure, but not any more. If you have SQL Server 2008 R2 installed you can follow the guideline below to generate a script which is compatible with SQL Azure.
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