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SQL SERVER – Update Statistics are Sampled By Default

April 23, 2010

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

After reading my earlier post SQL SERVER – Create Primary Key with Specific Name when Creating Table on Statistics, I have received another question by a blog reader. The question is as follows: Question: Are the statistics sampled by default? Answer: Yes. The sampling rate can be specified by the…

SQL SERVER – Create Primary Key with Specific Name when Creating Table

April 22, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Constraint and Keys, SQL Scripts

It is interesting how sometimes the documentation of simple concepts is not available online. I had received email from one of the reader where he has asked how to create Primary key with a specific name when creating the table itself. He said, he knows the method where he can…

SQL SERVER – Find Max Worker Count using DMV – 32 Bit and 64 Bit

April 20, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL DMV, SQL Scripts, SQL System Table

During several recent training courses, I found it very interesting that Worker Thread is not quite known to everyone despite the fact that it is a very important feature. At some point in the discussion, one of the attendees mentioned that we can double the Worker Thread if we double…

SQL SERVER – Find Most Active Database in SQL Server – DMV dm_io_virtual_file_stats

April 19, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Few days ago, I wrote about SQL SERVER – Find Current Location of Data and Log File of All the Database. There was very interesting conversation in comments by blog readers. Blog reader and SQL Expert Sreedhar has very interesting DMV presented which lists the most active database in SQL…

SQL SERVER – SELECT TOP Shortcut in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

April 17, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

This is tool is pretty old, yet always comes as a handy tip. I had a great trip at TechEd in India. And, during one of my presentations, I was asked if there are any shortcuts to SELECT only TOP 100 records from SSMS. I immediately told him that if…

SQL SERVER – What is Spatial Database? – Developing with SQL Server Spatial and Deep Dive into Spatial Indexing

April 14, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

Spatial Database, SQL Index, SQLAuthority Author Visit

What is Spatial Database? A spatial database is a database that is optimized to store and query data related to objects in space, including points, lines and polygons. While typical databases can understand various numeric and character types of data, additional functionality needs to be added for databases to process…

SQL SERVER – Configure Management Data Collection in Quick Steps – T-SQL Tuesday #005

April 13, 2010

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Reports

This article was written as a response to T-SQL Tuesday #005 – Reporting. The three most important components of any computer and server are the CPU, Memory, and Hard disk specification. This post talks about how to get more details about these three most important components using the Management Data…