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SQL SERVER – 2005 Best Practices Analyzer Tutorial – Sample Example

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, Database, SQL Download, SQL Scripts, SQL Utility
Yesterday I posted small note about SQL SERVER – 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (July BPA). I received many request about how BPA is used. Some of readers has asked me to provide sample tutorial which can help start using BPA. This utility has many uses for best practice. I have…
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SQL SERVER – 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (July BPA)

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, SQL Download, SQL Utility
The SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) gathers data from Microsoft Windows and SQL Server configuration settings. BPA uses a predefined list of SQL Server 2005 recommendations and best practices to determine if there are potential issues in the database environment. DOWNLOAD HERE Reference : Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)
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SQL SERVER – Comparison Index Fragmentation, Index De-Fragmentation, Index Rebuild – SQL SERVER 2000 and SQL SERVER 2005

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
DBA, SQL Index, SQL Scripts, SQL Server DBCC, SQL Server Security, SQL Utility
Index Fragmentation: When a page of data fills to 100 percent and more data must be added to it, a page split occurs. To make room for the new data, SQL Server must move half of the data from the full page to a new page. The new page that…
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SQL SERVER – Script/Function to Find Last Day of Month

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DateTime, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL Utility
Following query will find the last day of the month. Query also take care of Leap Year. Script: DECLARE @date DATETIME SET @date='2008-02-03' SELECT DATEADD(dd, -DAY(DATEADD(m,1,@date)), DATEADD(m,1,@date)) AS LastDayOfMonth GO DECLARE @date DATETIME SET @date='2007-02-03' SELECT DATEADD(dd, -DAY(DATEADD(m,1,@date)), DATEADD(m,1,@date)) AS LastDayOfMonth GO ResultSet: LastDayOfMonth ----------------------- 2008-02-29 00:00:00.000 (1 row(s) affected)…
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SQL SERVER – 2005 – SSMS Change T-SQL Batch Separator

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Utility

I recently received one big file with many T-SQL batches. It was a very big file and I was asked that this file was tested many times and it can run one transaction. I noticed the separator of the batches is not GO but it was EndBatch. I have followed two options to run the whole batch in one transaction. Let us learn how to change T-SQL Batch Separator.

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