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SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Statistics are not Updated but are Created Once

June 2, 2011
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Index, SQL Statistics
After having excellent response to my quiz – Why SELECT * throws an error but SELECT COUNT(*) does not?I have decided to ask another puzzling question to all of you. I am running this test on SQL Server 2008 R2. Here is the quick scenario about my setup. Create Table…
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SQLAuthority News – Win Windows Phone from Idera in 140 Characters – A Cartoon Challenge of SQL

April 5, 2011
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News
SQL Index
I personally have Windows Phone and I love it. The user friendliness and integration with social media is remarkable. My wife Nupur is big fan of Windows Live tools and Windows Phone as well. Well, this blog post is not about our preference of Windows Phone but about YOU a…
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SQL SERVER – What is Fill Factor and What is the Best Value for Fill Factor

January 31, 2011
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Index
Working in performance tuning area, one has to know about Index and Index Maintenance. For any Index the most important property is Fill Factor. Fill factor is the value that determines the percentage of space on each leaf-level page to be filled with data. In an SQL Server, the smallest…
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SQL SERVER – Shrinking Database is Bad – Increases Fragmentation – Reduces Performance

January 19, 2011
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server DBCC

Earlier, I had written two articles related to Shrinking Database. I wrote about why Shrinking Database is not good.

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SQL SERVER – A Funny Cartoon on Index

January 17, 2011
Pinal Dave
SQLAuthority News
SQL Cartoon, SQL Humor, SQL Index

Performance Tuning has been my favorite subject and I have done it for many years now. Today I will list one of the most common conversations about Index I have heard in my life. Let us see a funny cartoon on the Index and Performance Tuning.

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SQL SERVER – Unused Index Script – Download

January 4, 2011
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Download, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Performance Tuning is quite interesting and Index plays a vital role in it. A proper index can improve the performance and a bad index can hamper the performance. Here is the script from my script bank, which I use to identify unused indexes on any database. Let us see script for unused index.

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SQL SERVER – Missing Index Script – Download

January 3, 2011
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Download, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Performance Tuning is quite interesting and Index plays a vital role in it. A proper index can improve the performance and a bad index can hamper the performance. In this blog post we will discuss about Missing Index.

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