In my recent Office Hours, I received a question on how to determine the case sensitivity of the database. Let us learn about how we can Detecting Database Case Sensitive Property using fn_helpcollations().
SQLAuthority News – SQL Wait Stats Book – Available as Kindle eBook – October Special
Get SQL Wait Stats – Kindle Edition Last month I released my SQL Wait Stats book. This book is the beginning of my journey in wait stats. It has been extremely popular and so far in India it has sold all the print copies twice on Flipkart. This book is…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Quick Note about JOIN – Common Questions and Simple Answers
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…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – CE – 3 Links to Performance Tuning Compact Edition
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…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – SQL Backup and FTP – A Quick and Handy Tool
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…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – CE – List of Information_Schema System Tables
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…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – CE – Samples Database for SQL CE 4.0
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…
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