SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

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Jun16

SQL SERVER – 2005 – UDF – User Defined Function to Strip HTML – Parse HTML – No Regular Expression

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String

One of the developers at my company asked is it possible to parse HTML and retrieve only TEXT from it without using regular expression. He wanted to remove everything between < and > and keep only Text. I found the question very interesting and quickly wrote UDF which does not use regular expression. Let us see how to parse HTML without regular expression.

Jun15

SQL SERVER – sp_HelpText for sp_HelpText – Puzzle

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Puzzle, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure

It was interesting to me. I was using sp_HelpText to see the text of the stored procedure. Stored Procedure were different so I had copied sp_HelpText on my clipboard and was pasting it in Query Editor of Management Studio. In rush I typed twice sp_HelpText and hit F5. Result was…

Jun15

SQL SERVER – 2005 NorthWind Database or AdventureWorks Database – Samples Databases – Part 2

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Download, SQL Sample Database, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

191

I have mentioned the history of NorthWind, Pubs and AdventureWorks in my previous post SQL SERVER – 2005 NorthWind Database or AdventureWorks Database – Samples Databases. I have been receiving very frequent request for NorthWind Database for SQL Server 2005 and installation method.

Jun14

SQL SERVER – Easy Sequence of SELECT FROM JOIN WHERE GROUP BY HAVING ORDER BY

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Database, DBA, SQL Scripts

I was called many times by Jr. Programmers in team to debug their SQL. I keep log of most of the problems and review them afterwards. This helps me to evaluate my team and identify most important next thing which I can do to improve the performance and productivity of…

Jun14

SQL SERVER – Explanation SQL SERVER Hash Join

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Joins

Hash Join works with large data set. I have seen this join used many times in data warehouses applications as well as data mining algorithms. While its characteristics are similar to merge join it does not required ordered result set to join. Hash join requiresequijoin predicate to join tables. Equijoin…

Jun13

SQL SERVER – Fix : Error 8629 The query processor could not produce a query plan from the optimizer because a query cannot update a text, ntext, or image column and a clustering key at the same time.

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server

Error : 8629 The query processor could not produce a query plan from the optimizer because a query cannot update a text, ntext, or image column and a clustering key at the same time.

Jun13

SQL SERVER – Download 2005 Books Online (May 2007)

Pinal Dave

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

SQL Download

Microsoft has merged SQL Server 2005 Expressed to SQL Server 2005 Books Online. New Version of SQL Server 2005 Books Online is released on June 12, 2007. Download SQL Server Books Online (BOL) Reference : Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)

Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 24 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.

Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 100 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.

Pinal is an experienced and dedicated professional with a deep commitment to flawless customer service. If you need help with any SQL Server Performance Tuning Issues, please feel free to reach out at pinal@sqlauthority.com.

Pinal is also a CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1) and CrossFit Level 2 Trainer (CF-L2).

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