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SQL Server - Find missing and unused indexes

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:46:42 GMT

How to find SQL Server indexes that should exists and those that shouldn't when performing index maintenance.

Advanced SQL Server 2005 Express Job Scheduling

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:29:39 GMT

How to make run once, daily, weekly, monthly absolute and relative scheduling in SQL Server Express 2005 and 2008 without any 3rd party tools.

I KILL-ed you! Now can I go for a coffee break while you die?

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:05:42 GMT

Find out how long it will take for a rollback to complete in SQL Server with the help of a little know feature of the KILL keyword.

OUTPUTing Data from the Just-Inserted, Updated, or Deleted Row(s)

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:53:24 GMT

Scott Mitchell discusses a little gem he discovered, which is the use of OUTPUT clause in INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and MERGE (2008) DML statement to get the effect of in-place triggers and more.

Custom user configurable SQL Server Profiler events

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:00:07 GMT

SQL Server Profiler is a well known tool for tracing different activity that happens between your server and the clients connected to it. But very few people know that you can have custom events and trace them in the SQL Server Profiler.

SSMS Tools PACK 1.1 - now with SSMS 2008 support

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:01:09 GMT

With this new version you can use it for SQL Server Management Studio 2008 and SQL Server Management Studio 2008 Express. Plus some extra features.

SQL Server 2005 Express Job Scheduling - Part 1

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:33:49 GMT

SQL Server 2005 Express Job Scheduling with the help of Sql Server service broker and without 3rd party products.

SQL Server 2005 temporary tables bug, feature or expected behavior?

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:59:39 GMT

Some unexpected SQL Server behaviour around temporary tables that is good to know about. If it can be explained...

SQL SERVER - 2005 - Difference Between INTERSECT and INNER JOIN

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:46:03 GMT

INTERSECT operator in SQL Server 2005 is used to retrieve the common records from both the left and the right query of the Intersect Operator. INTERSECT operator returns almost same results as INNER JOIN clause many times. When using INTERSECT operator the number and the order of the columns must be the same in all queries as well data type must be compatible. Let us see understand how INTERSECT and INNER JOIN are related.We will be using AdventureWorks database to demonstrate our example.

Immediate deadlock notifications without changing existing code

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:00:36 GMT

In my previous post about immediate deadlock notifications in SQL Server 2005 I've shown a way to use a try catch block to get the deadlock error. The con of this method, although it uses best practice for error handling in SQL Server 2005, is that you have to change existing code and it doesn't work for non stored procedure code. And that IS a pretty BIG con! So here's a solution to this con.

SQL Server 2005 bug when using LIKE searches

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:43:30 GMT

Here's a demo of a nice little bug in SQL Server 2005 when using LIKE comparisons for searching. What is so "nice" about it is that it only manifests itself if your search ends in number 9 followed by a wildcard when selecting only columns covered by a nonclustered index.

Seup Your environment 4 WF with ASP.NET in VS 2005

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:15:16 GMT

what you need to know to set up your environment to use workflow foundation while still using visual studio 2005

How To: Rename SQL Server 2005 Database Using TSQL

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:19:56 GMT

For some reasons, DBA's need to rename their Databases. One of the reasons might be to comply to Best Practices Policy changes. Here we are going to rename our Database named "Bad_Ass_DB" into "Best_Practice_DB". This is how Database renaming with TSQL is done in SQL Server 2005....

SQL Server 2005 Security Update (KB948109) fails to install with error

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:55:21 GMT

Gotcha to watch out for with the SQL security update.

SQL Server 2005: Immediate Deadlock notifications

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:48:15 GMT

Deadlocks can be a pain to debug since they're so rare and unpredictable. The problem lies in repeating them in your dev environment. That's why it's crucial to have as much information about them from the production environment as possible. This is one way of getting it immediatly when it happens,

New CTP for "Rosario"

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:30:36 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 (codename Whidbey) and Visual Studio 2008 (codename Orcas) ... What's Next in VS? it will be "Rosario" to check its new Features and Specifications and download its VPC

How to Query Active Directory using LDAP in SQL Server 2000 / 2005 ?

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:10:33 GMT

This article is about configuring SQL Server to query Active Directory using LDAP. It also lists the possible columns that can be used with LDAP query.

Restoring VS2005's 'prop' snippet in VS2008

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:37:10 GMT

Automatic properties are nice, but sometimes they just won't do. Visual C# 2005 included a 'prop' code snippet for a full property with backing filed but 2008 changed the snippet to generate an automatic property. Here's how to restore the 2005 snippet.

Step by Step building a project template and wizard in VS 2005

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:14:36 GMT

Step by Step building a project template and wizard in VS 2005

SQL Server 2005 : Access Tables / Entities across Servers

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:36:01 GMT

Updating / Accessing data from another server is very easy using SQLServer 2005. Its very handy to restrict access to Production Server.

Unique Data Columns in SQL Server 2005: A Quick Look

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:55:37 GMT

Some basic differences among SQL Server 2005 unique columns (primary key, unique key, unique identifiers etc).

Integrating Profiler and PerfMon Log Files

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:50:57 GMT

How to create a PerfMon counters log file and SQL Profiler Trace file, how to read them both and how to correlate the two files in SQL Profiler.

Back to Basics: Count, Count, Count, Sum or how to Count

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:25:56 GMT

There are at least 4 ways you can COUNT in SQL Server: COUNT(*), COUNT(ColumnName), COUNT(DISTINCT ColumnName) AND SUM() All 4 combined can be used to speed up queries especially for reporting.

Migrating Web Application Projects between VS 2005 and VS 2008

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:31:02 GMT

If you move Web Application Projects between Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005 and a machine that doesn't have Visual Studio 2005 installed you will find that the project doesn't load due to a build target difference.

Using SQL Server 2005's OUTPUT to return generated identity with ADO.N

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:28:56 GMT

This article focuses especially on ADO.NET-side of handling the returned values from the SQL Server 2005's OUTPUT. It is a good alternative for the scope_identity() etc.