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SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation of ON Clause on LEFT JOIN – How ON Clause affects Resultset in LEFT JOIN

March 15, 2009

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

Today I received email from Yoel from Israel. He is one smart man always bringing up interesting questions. Let us see his latest email first. Hi Pinal, I am subscribed to your blog and enjoy reading it. I have a question which has been bothering me for some time now.…

SQL SERVER – Profiler – Adding Filters – Observation on CPU Load

March 13, 2009

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Profiler, SQL Utility

Today I am blog about something which I found recently while working with SQL Server Profiler. Profiler can be invoked just typing profiler in command prompt. I am using Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit (License Version) and SQL Server 2008 Development (License Version). The reason I have put “License Version”…

SQL SERVER – Difference Between Union vs. Union All – Optimal Performance Comparison

March 11, 2009

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Scripts

More than a year ago I had written article SQL SERVER – Union vs. Union All – Which is better for performance? I have got many request to update this article. It is not fair to update already written article so I am rewriting it again with additional information. UNION…

SQLAuthority News – Ahmedabad User Group Meeting February 21 2009

February 23, 2009

Pinal Dave

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

MVP, SQL Index, SQL User Group, SQLAuthority Author Visit

We had Ahmedabad SQL Server User Group meeting on February 21, 2009 and it was wonderful to see so many people showing up for meeting. Gradually our group is growing and more and more developers and DBA are showing up. We had two session in this meeting. From the feedback…

SQL SERVER – My Observation – Effect of Clustered Index over Nonclustered Index

February 21, 2009

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Constraint and Keys, SQL Index, SQL Scripts

Note: This article is re-write of my previous article SQL SERVER – Observation – Effect of Clustered Index over Nonclustered Index. I have received so many request that re-write it as it is little confusing. I am going to re-write this with simpler words. Query optimization is one art which…

SQL SERVER – Technical Articles – Performance Optimizations for the XML Data Type in SQL Server 2005

February 11, 2009

Pinal Dave

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

Best Practices, MVP, SQL Index, SQL XML

I always wanted to learn XML and its usage. My friend and fellow MVP Jacob Sebastian is expert in XML, so if you are interested in XML please visit his blog here. If you are interested in performance optimization for XML Data type in SQL Server following article is must…

SQL SERVER – Introduction to Force Index Query Hints – Index Hint – Part2

February 8, 2009

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Constraint and Keys, SQL Index, SQL Scripts

In my previous article SQL SERVER – Introduction to Force Index Query Hints – Index Hint I have discussed regarding how we can use Index Hints with any query. I just received email from one of my regular reader that are there any another methods for the same as it…