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SQLAuthority News – Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP4

December 24, 2010

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

SQL Documentation, SQL Download, SQL Service Pack

If you are still using SQL Server 2005 – I suggest that you consider migrating to later version of the SQL Server 2008/2008 R2. Due to any reason, you wanted to continue using SQL Server 2005, I suggest that you take a look at the Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL…

SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Observation of the View – Part 2

December 23, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Scripts, SQL View

Earlier, I have written an article about SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Observation of the View. I received an email from one of the readers, asking if there would no problems when we create the Index on the base table. Well, we need to…

SQL SERVER – Public Training and Private Training – Differences and Similarities – Public Training vs Private Training

December 22, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Training

Earlier this year, I was on Road SQL Server Seminars. I did many SQL Server Performance Trainings and SQL Server Performance Consultations throughout the year but I feel the most rewarding exercise is always the one when instructor learns something from students, too. I was just talking to my wife, Nupur –…

SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Observation of the View

December 21, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Scripts, SQL View

I always enjoy writing about concepts on Views. Views are frequently used concepts, and so it’s not surprising that I have seen so many misconceptions about this subject. To clear such misconceptions, I have previously written the article SQL SERVER – The Limitations of the Views – Eleven and more….…

SQL SERVER – Securing TRUNCATE Permissions in SQL Server

December 20, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Best Practices, SQL Scripts, SQL Server Security

Download the Script of this article from here. On December 11, 2010, Vinod Kumar, a Databases & BI technology evangelist from Microsoft Corporation, graced Ahmedabad by spending some time with the Community during the Community Tech Days (CTD) event. As he was running through a few demos, Vinod asked the…

SQL SERVER – Server Side Paging in SQL Server 2012 Performance Comparison

December 16, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

Earlier, I have written about SQL SERVER – Server Side Paging in SQL Server 2012 – A Better Alternative. I got many emails asking for performance analysis of paging. Here is the quick analysis of it. The real challenge of paging is all the unnecessary IO reads from the database.…

SQL SERVER – Server Side Paging in SQL Server 2012 – A Better Alternative

December 15, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Scripts

Ranking has improvement considerably from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005/2008 to SQL Server 2012. Here is the blog article where I wrote about SQL Server 2005/2008 paging method SQL SERVER – 2005 T-SQL Paging Query Technique Comparison (OVER and ROW_NUMBER()) – CTE vs. Derived Table. One can achieve…