Locking Hints and Examples are as follows. The usage of them is the same but the effect is different. Let us learn it today together.
SQL SERVER – SELECT vs. SET Performance Comparison
Usage: SELECT : Designed to return data. SET : Designed to assign values to local variables. While testing the performance of the following two scripts in query analyzer, interesting results are discovered. SET @foo1 = 1; SET @foo2 = 2; SET @foo3 = 3; SELECT @foo1 = 1, @foo2 =…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Difference Between Unique Index vs Unique Constraint
Unique Index and Unique Constraint are the same. They achieve same goal. SQL Performance is same for both. Add Unique Constraint ALTER TABLE dbo.<tablename> ADD CONSTRAINT <namingconventionconstraint> UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED ( <columnname> ) ON [PRIMARY] Add Unique Index CREATE UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED INDEX <namingconventionconstraint> ON dbo.<tablename> ( <columnname> ) ON [PRIMARY] There…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – 2005 – DBCC ROWLOCK – Deprecated
Title says all. My search engine log says many web users are looking for DBCC ROWLOCK in SQL SERVER 2005. It is deprecated feature for SQL SERVER 2005. It is Automatically on for SQL SERVER 2005. More Deprecated Features of SQL SERVER 2005 Refer MSDN Discontinued Database Engine Functionality in…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – 2005 Take Off Line or Detach Database
EXEC sp_dboption N'mydb', N'offline', N'true' OR ALTER DATABASE [mydb] SET OFFLINE WITH ROLLBACK AFTER 30 SECONDS OR ALTER DATABASE [mydb] SET OFFLINE WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE Using the alter database statement (SQL Server 2k and beyond) is the preferred method. The rollback after statement will force currently executing statements to rollback…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – TRIM() Function – UDF TRIM()
SQL Server does not have function which can trim leading or trailing spaces of any string. TRIM() is very popular function in many languages. SQL does have LTRIM() and RTRIM() which can trim leading and trailing spaces respectively. I was expecting SQL Server 2005 to have TRIM() function. Unfortunately, SQL…
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