My earlier article SQL SERVER – The Limitations of the Views – Eleven and more… has lots of popularity and I have been asked many questions on the view. Many emails I received suggesting that they have hundreds of the view and now have no clue what is going on and how many of them have indexes and how many does not have an index. Some even asked me if there is any way they can get a list of the views with the property of Index along with it.
SQL SERVER – SQL Challenge – SQL Puzzle – Query Creating Most TempDB IO Usage
Recently, there have been a lot of interesting concepts in various challenges. My friend Jacob Sebastian is running the SQLQuiz for the entire month, and it has been very popular and going just great. So here I thought I would put something very similar to the quiz bee. The award…
Read MoreSQLAuthority News – Database Performance for SharePoint Sites – Session Tomorrow in Singapore
I am all excited to present my very first session on Database Performance for SharePoint Sites. Here is the details for my session which is planned for tomorrow. Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel Singapore 392 Havelock Road Singapore 169663 My Sessions details: Maintaining SQL Server at Optimal Performance for Blazing Fast…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Taking Multiple Backup of Database in Single Command – Mirrored Database Backup
I recently had a very interesting experience. In one of my recent consultancy works, I was told by our client that they are going to take the backup of the database and will also a copy of it at the same time. I expressed that it was surely possible if…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Change Column DataTypes
There are times when I feel like writing that I am a day older in SQL Server. In fact, there are many who are looking for a solution that is simple enough. Have you ever searched online for something very simple. I often do and enjoy doing things which are straight forward and easy for change.
In this blog post, we will see to Change Column DataTypes
SQL SERVER – System Stored Procedure sys.sp_tables
I have seen people running the following script quite often, to know the list of the tables from the database: SELECT * FROM sys.tables GO The script above provides various information from create date to file stream, and many other important information. If you need all those information, that script…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Indexed View always Use Index on Table
This blog post is written in response to T-SQL Tuesday hosted by Shankar Reddy. I have been recently writing about Views and their Limitations. While writing this article series, I got inspired to write about SQL Server Quiz Questions. You can view the Quiz Question posted over here. In SQL…
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