SQL SERVER – Data and Page Compressions – Data Storage and IO Improvement

The performance of SQL Server is primarily decided by the disk I/O efficiency. Improving I/O definitely improves the performance. SQL Server 2008 introduced Data and Backup compression features to improve the disk I/O. Here, I will explain Data compression. Data compression implies the reduction in the disk space reserved by…
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SQL SERVER- IF EXISTS(Select null from table) vs IF EXISTS(Select 1 from table)

Few days ago I wrote article about SQL SERVER – Stored Procedure Optimization Tips – Best Practices. I received lots of comments on particular blog article. In fact, almost all the comments are very interesting. If you have not read all the comments, I strongly suggest to read them. Click…
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SQL SERVER – Recompile Stored Procedure at Run Time

I recently received an email from reader after reading my previous article on SQL SERVER – Plan Recompilation and Reduce Recompilation – Performance Tuning regarding how to recompile any stored procedure at run time. There are multiple ways to do this. If you want your stored procedure to always recompile at run time, you can add the keyword RECOMPILE when you create the stored procedure. Additionally, if the stored procedure has to be recompiled at only one time, in that case, you can add RECOMPILE word one time only and run the SP as well. Let us go over these two options.

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SQL SERVER – Plan Recompilation and Reduce Recompilation – Performance Tuning

Recompilation process is same as compilation and degrades server performance. In SQL Server 2000 and earlier versions, this was a serious issue but in SQL server 2005, the severity of this issue has been significantly reduced by introducing a new feature called Statement-level recompilation. When SQL Server 2005 recompiles stored…
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