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SQL SERVER – Function to Retrieve First Word of Sentence – String Operation

August 20, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL String
I have sent of function library where I store all the UDF I have ever written. Recently I received email from my friend requesting if I have UDF which manipulate string and returns only very first word of the statement. Well, I realize that I do not have such a…
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Negative Increment

SQL SERVER – Negative Identity Seed Value and Negative Increment Interval

August 19, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Function, SQL Identity, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Let us learn today about Negative Identity Seed Value and Negative Increment Interval. I have also included a video in this blog post.

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SQL SERVER – Finding the Occurrence of Character in String

August 16, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL String
This article is written in response to provide hint to TSQL Beginners Challenge 14. The challenge is about counting the number of occurrences of characters in the string. Here is quick method how you can count occurrence of character in any string. Here is quick example which provides you two…
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SQL SERVER – Computed Column and Performance – Part 3

August 13, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Index, SQL Scripts
I am really enjoying writing about computed column and its effect in terms of performance. Before continuing this article, I suggest you read the earlier articles on the same subject to get the complete context. This is the list of the all the articles in the series of computed column.…
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SQL SERVER – SHRINKDATABASE For Every Database in the SQL Server

August 12, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
DBA, SQL Scripts
I was recently called to attend the Query Tuning Project. I had a very interesting experience in this event. I would like to share to you what actually happened. Note: If you are just going to say that shrinking database is bad, I agree with you and that is the…
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SQL SERVER – Parallelism Query in Database

August 6, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts
I recently came across two interesting questions asked by Feodor over here. He has asked very interesting questions. Please check them as follows: If I have a dual core computer and I would like to get a query executed with parallelism in order to test it, how would I do…
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SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED and Performance – Part 2

August 4, 2010
Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts
This is the third article in the series which I am writing on Persisted Columns. I suggest you read following two article first before continuing on this article. This is the list of the all the articles in the series of computed column. SQL SERVER – Computed Column – PERSISTED…
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