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SQL SERVER – Disabled Index and Index Levels and B-Tree

September 14, 2010

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

This blog post is written in response to T-SQL Tuesday hosted by Michael J. Swart. Recently, I presented a session at the Microsoft Bangalore office. Everybody eagerly wanted to learn more, to the extent that they wanted a mentor to train each of them in order to move on to…

SQL SERVER – What are Wait Types, Wait Stats and its Importance

September 13, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Earlier last month Solid Quality India announced SQL Server Health Check Service and since then, it has got very good response from the industry. However, the only question we are be asked all the time is: “What is “SQL Server Resource Wait Stats Analysis” and how can it be useful?”What…

SQL SERVER – Soft Delete Conversation – Your Opinion Needed

September 12, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

Best Practices

Last Week I wrote article about SQL SERVER – Soft Delete – IsDelete Column – Your Opinion and this article has got excellent community response. There have been some very interesting feedback on both the side. There are few opinions where expert have explained the conversation very balanced way. I…

SQLAuthority News – Download – Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer Whitepaper

September 11, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

Best Practices, SQL Documentation, SQL Download

I had previously written article on SQL SERVER – Introduction to Best Practices Analyzer – Quick Tutorial. Microsoft has come up with white paper regarding same Best Practice Analyzer. In the new R2 version the SQL BPA introduces advanced capabilities in conjunction with the PowerShell architecture and also raises the…

SQL SERVER – Find Automatically Created Statistics – T-SQL

September 10, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Scripts, SQL Statistics

Earlier, I wrote about my experience at an organization here: SQL SERVER – Plan Cache – Retrieve and Remove – A Simple Script. This blog post briefly narrates another experience I had at the same organization. When I was there, I also looked at the statistics and found something that…

SQL SERVER – Quickly Upgrade Your SQL Server

September 9, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL Server

SQL Upgrade

In this blog post, I will talk about how you can use Docker to quickly upgrade your SQL Server. I discuss docker in this blog post.

SQL SERVER – Find Row Count in Table – Find Largest Table in Database – Part 2

September 8, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Best Practices, Database, SQL Scripts

Last Year I wrote article on the subject SQL SERVER – Find Row Count in Table – Find Largest Table in Database – T-SQL. It is very good to see excellent participation there. In my script I had not taken care of table schema. SQL Server Expert Ameena has modified…