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May29

UDF have its own advantage and usage but in this article we will see the limitation of UDF. Things UDF can not do and why Stored Procedure are considered as more flexible then UDFs. Stored Procedure are more flexibility then User Defined Functions(UDF). UDF has No Access to Structural and…

May28

SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – Meeting with Readers – Top Three Features of SQL SERVER 2005

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Best Practices, SQLAuthority Author Visit

Lots of travelers are visiting to Las Vegas due to long weekend of Memorial Day. I was invited to dinner meeting by two of my readers. It was wonderful discussion with them. We primarily discussed about scalability and upgrading issues about SQL Server. I received feedback about SQLAuthority.com site. There…

May28

SQL SERVER – SQL Joke, SQL Humor, SQL Laugh – SP

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQL Humor, SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure

One of my Friend send me(in email) following stored procedure. I laughed when I read it. Please enjoy it. It is here for amusement purpose only. Never use on development or production server. This is already dangerous you have been warned. CREATE PROCEDURE MyMarriage @ BrideGroom CHAR(NotBad), @ Bride CHAR(Good)…

May27

SQL SERVER – Download Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Database, SQL Download

Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 – February 2007 Download the February 2007 Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, a collection of standalone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2005. I have listed all the stand alone packages here. Even though title says February 2007,…

May27

SQL SERVER – 2005 Limiting Result Sets by Using TABLESAMPLE – Examples

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Random, SQL Scripts

Introduced in SQL Server 2005, TABLESAMPLE allows you to extract a sampling of rows from a table in the FROM clause. The rows retrieved are random and they are are not in any order. This sampling can be based on a percentage of number of rows. You can use TABLESAMPLE…

May26

SQL SERVER – 2005 Replace TEXT with VARCHAR(MAX) – Stop using TEXT, NTEXT, IMAGE Data Types

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Datatype, SQL String

Yesterday, in Friday Afternoon team meeting. I was asked question by one of application developer “I am asked in new coding standards to use VARHCAR(MAX) instead of TEXT. Is VARCHAR(MAX) big enough to store TEXT field?” Well, I realize that I was not clear enough in my coding standard. It…

May26

SQL SERVER – 2005 Find Table without Clustered Index – Find Table with no Primary Key

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Index, SQL Scripts

One of the basic Database Rule I have is that all the table must Clustered Index. Clustered Index speeds up performance of the query ran on that table. Clustered Index are usually Primary Key but not necessarily. I frequently run following query to verify that all the Jr. DBAs are…

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SQL SERVER – User Defined Functions (UDF) Limitations

SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – Meeting with Readers – Top Three Features of SQL SERVER 2005

SQL SERVER – SQL Joke, SQL Humor, SQL Laugh – SP

SQL SERVER – Download Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005

SQL SERVER – 2005 Limiting Result Sets by Using TABLESAMPLE – Examples

SQL SERVER – 2005 Replace TEXT with VARCHAR(MAX) – Stop using TEXT, NTEXT, IMAGE Data Types

SQL SERVER – 2005 Find Table without Clustered Index – Find Table with no Primary Key

SQL SERVER – Troubleshooting Non-Yielding Scheduler Issues

Trace Flags 1117 and 1118 No Longer Required since SQL Server 2016

SQL SERVER – Writing Function for The Rule of 72

Solving Quadratic Equations with T-SQL

Calculating Extended Internal Rate of Return (XIRR) in SQL Server with T-SQL

SQL SERVER – Setting up a Robust Password Policy

SQL SERVER – Generating Complex Passwords with T-SQL