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

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

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Constraint and Keys, SQL Index, SQL Scripts
This article, I will start with disclaimer instead of having it at the end of article. “SQL Server query optimizer selects the best execution plan for a query, it is recommended to use query hints by experienced developers and database administrators in case of special circumstances.” When any query is…
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SQL SERVER – Observation – Effect of Clustered Index over Nonclustered Index

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Puzzle, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Constraint and Keys, SQL Index, SQL Scripts
Today I came across very interesting observation while I was working on query optimization. Let us run the example first. Make sure to to enable Execution Plan (Using CTRL + M) before running comparison queries. USE [AdventureWorks] GO /* */ CREATE TABLE [dbo].[MyTable]( [ID] [int] NOT NULL, [First] [nchar](10) NULL,…
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SQL SERVER – FIX : ERROR : Msg 5834, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The affinity mask specified conflicts with the IO affinity mask specified. Use the override option to force this configuration

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure
Yesterday I came across following error while enabling fill factor for my database server, when I was trying to write article SQL SERVER – 2008 – 2005 – Rebuild Every Index of All Tables of Database – Rebuild Index with FillFactor. I ran following T-SQL script and it gave me…
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SQL SERVER – 2008 – 2005 – Rebuild Every Index of All Tables of Database – Rebuild Index with FillFactor

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
SQL Cursor, SQL Index, SQL Scripts
I just wrote down following script very quickly for one of the project which I am working on. The requirement of the project was that every index existed in database should be rebuilt with fillfactor of  80. One common question I receive why fillfactor 80, answer is I just think…
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