Transferring ownership of a schema to another user in SQL Server 2005 takes one ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON SCHEMA statement. A reader asked, so here it is.
SQL SERVER – Find Nth Highest Salary of Employee – Query to Retrieve the Nth Maximum value
How do you find the Nth Highest Salary of an employee? I link my earlier answers and share reader Pravin Phatangare’s simple TOP query for the 6th highest salary.
What to Alert On, and What to Let Sleep
Make SQL Server alerting actionable by tying thresholds to impact, checking missing work, reducing duplicates, and reviewing every overnight call.
SQL SERVER – 2005 – List All Column With Identity Key In Specific Database
Question I received in Email : How to list all the columns in the database which are used as identity key in my database?
SQL SERVER – Introduction to sys.dm_exec_query_optimizer_info
While browsing Books Online I found sys.dm_exec_query_optimizer_info, which returns statistics about the query optimizer to help you tune a workload.
SQL SERVER – 2005 – Find Index Fragmentation Details – Slow Index Performance
A slow index turned out to be heavily fragmented. My quick script uses sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats to show index fragmentation details for every index.
SQL SERVER – Simple Puzzle Using Union and Union All – Answer
The answer to yesterday’s Simple Puzzle Using Union and Union All, explained with an image. My UNION vs. UNION ALL article explains why it works.