Question: How to Change Database File Size?
Answer: By Shrinking the files. Now, many have a negative opinion about Shrinkfile.
Performance Comparison – IN vs BETWEEN – SQL in Sixty Seconds #127
Yesterday I blogged about SQL SERVER – Performance Comparison – BETWEEN, IN, and Operators. Following that, I got many emails about the topic.
BETWEEN vs IN in SQL Server: Which One Reads Less?
BETWEEN vs IN looks like a style choice, and it is not. This post builds a demo table and measures BETWEEN, the two operators and an IN list with and without an index. It shows that BETWEEN and the operators share one plan, that IN seeks once for every value and that sparse values change the question.
SQL SERVER – Unicode Storage and UTF8 Version Limits
nchar and nvarchar are usual types for Unicode character strings in SQL Server. Reader questions prompted my datatype summary.
SQL SERVER – Storing a Non-English String in Table – Unicode Strings
Yesterday I had a meeting with my client Performance Health Check, and they wanted to know how to store a non-English string in a table.
How to Get Volume Mount Point for SQL Server Files? – Interview Question of the Week #295
Question: How to Get Volume Mount Point for SQL Server Files?
Answer: I was asked this question by my client during the recent Health Check.
Nested Transactions are Myth – SQL in Sixty Seconds #125
Many sent me an email that they want to know more about the nested transactions. Let us learn about them in today’s blog post.