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SQL SERVER – Quick Note about JOIN – Common Questions and Simple Answers

October 4, 2011

This blog post is written in response to the T-SQL Tuesday post of JOIN. This is a very interesting subject. Years ago, I wrote my article about SQL SERVER – Introduction to JOINs – Basic of JOINs, ‑ till date, it is my most favorite article on the blog. Today…

SQL SERVER – CE – 3 Links to Performance Tuning Compact Edition

October 4, 2011

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

Today, I am going to do webcast online on how to improve performance for SQL CE. Here are three articles which I am going to base my session. Database Design and Performance (SQL Server Compact Edition) Use Database Denormalization Decide Between Variable and Fixed-length Columns Create Smaller Row Lengths Use…

SQL SERVER – SQL Backup and FTP – A Quick and Handy Tool

October 3, 2011

Pinal Dave

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SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Utility

Scroll down at the end of this post to win my SQL Wait Stats Book. I have used this tool extensively since 2009 at numerous occasion and found it to be very impressive. What separates it from the crowd the most – it is it’s apparent simplicity and speed. When…

SQL SERVER – CE – List of Information_Schema System Tables

October 2, 2011

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Documentation, SQL Download

Yesterday I wrote blog post that I downloaded WebMatrix and it was very easy to install, after installing I noticed it has default database as SQL CE. I started to play with SQL CE and I was glad that it supports many of the Information_Schema. There is one important thing…

SQL SERVER – CE – Samples Database for SQL CE 4.0

October 1, 2011

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Documentation, SQL Download

I recently installed WebMatrix Version Next. I found it very neat and easy to install. You can download it for FREE. After installing it I download when I checked the about page, it displayed following result. ————————— About WebMatrix ————————— Version 2 Beta WebMatrix: 7.1.1307.1 IIS 7.5 Express: 7.1.1307.1 .NET…

SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_windows_info – Information about Operating System

September 30, 2011

Pinal Dave

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SQL DMV

One more quick introduction to DMV for Denali. Following DMV provides information about Windows Operating System. Here is the quick example of the same. This DMV returns information about the operating system volume (directory) on which the specified databases and files are stored. Here is the quick example I have…

SQL SERVER – Denali – DMV – sys.dm_os_volume_stats – Information about operating system volume

September 30, 2011

Pinal Dave

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SQL DMV

SQL Server Denali has many new interesting feature – one of the interesting feature is New DMVs. This DMV returns information about the operating system volume (directory) on which the specified databases and files are stored. Here is the quick example I have created for the same. SELECT DB_NAME(f.database_id) DatabaseName,…