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How To: Create Dynamic File System Directory in TSQL

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:50:44 GMT

I have created a Backup Script to backup all the databases in our SQL Server 2005. I want to keep old backups for sometime for some reason; so I want to create subdirectory with the run date as the name of the folder to separate the set of backups by date.

How To: Rename SQL Server 2005 Database Using TSQL

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:19:56 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 2005/2008 Upcoming Events Near You!

Fri, 09 May 2008 20:04:25 GMT

Watch out for these events!

Tips & tricks for writing better queries presentation

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:32:04 GMT

Link to the "Writing Better Queries" presentation that Joe Webb gave at the Nashville SQL Server User Group meeting on 4 April 2008.

Does the order of criteria the WHERE clause matter?

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:40:51 GMT

Does the order of the search criteria make any difference in Microsoft SQL Server's ability to use indexes or resolve a query? In this post, Joe provides a demonstration of how SQL Server can optimize the WHERE clause to its benefit.

Build a complete Stored Procedure based Data Access Layer ... Part 2

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:12:43 GMT

Build a complete Stored Procedure based Data Access Layer using Code Generation - Part 2

Build a complete Stored Procedure based Data Access Layer ... Part 1

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:09:50 GMT

Build a complete Stored Procedure based Data Access Layer using Code Generation Part 1

SQL - Cursors

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:06:55 GMT

This article give you the detailed explaination about cursors used in sql....

The undocumented sp_MSforeachtable procedure

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:26:08 GMT

This posting demonstrates how to use the undocumented sp_MSforeachtable stored procedure in the SQL Server master database to execute a SQL script against each table in the database. Great for disabling check constraints before loading data.

SQL - Truncate and Delete

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:16:02 GMT

Truncate an Delete both are used to delete data from the table. These both the command will only delete the data of the specified table, they cannot remove the whole table data along with its structure. Now it's ok that both the SQL statements are used to delete only the data from the table but they both differ from each other in many aspects like syntax, performance, resources uses etc. to find out all differnces take a look of this article.....

SQL - Using "UNION ALL" to Convert Horizontal Data to Vertical Data

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:46:46 GMT

This post will tell u how to use the UNION ALL operator to convert horizontal data to vertical data. read the post more more information.......

SQL - Derived tables

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:16:02 GMT

This article explains what are derived tables and how we can use them to perform our query better. In some situations they can be a better alternative of temporary tables, So take a look of this... :)

When was a SQL Server table or view last altered?

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:02:45 GMT

A very handy little script to determine the last time a SQL Server table or view was altered.

Enabling and disabling logins in SQL Server 2005

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:07:26 GMT

A concise, yet informative demonstration of how to create, enable, disable, and drop SQL Server logins and users using T-SQL.

SQL - Temporary tables a detailed view.

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:01:04 GMT

This article contains almost each and everything related to temporary tables in SQL, all the concepts of temp tables like how to use them, wht are the alternatives of temp tables, what are the benefits and drwabacks, what is the performance tunibg tips etc, i think this is the best article to learn about SQL Server Temporary tables.

How to tell when the SQL Server service was started

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:23:54 GMT

Neat little post that shows how to use T-SQL to determine with the SQL Server service was last started.

SQL Server 2000: when were the statistics updated?

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:01:01 GMT

A SQL script to determine when the statistics were updated for all indexes on all user tables in SQL Server 2000.

LINQ to the rescue?

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:28:47 GMT

I heard someone state that LINQ was going to rescue developers from having to know TSQL. Well if that's true then who will rescue us from LINQ?

"Nothing has changed" - Determining when a procedure has been altered

Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:01:01 GMT

Cool little script to determine when a stored procedure was last updated.

TABLESAMPLE Clause in SQL Server 2005

Mon, 07 May 2007 05:01:01 GMT

TABLESAMPLE is a new clause in SQL Server 2005 to select a sample table from an exisiting table.

OUTPUT Clause in SQL Server 2005

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:16:01 GMT

In this post you'll read about a new clause that is added to T-SQL with SQL Server 2005. OUTPUT clause helps you to retrieve data from inserted, updated or deleted rows.

New T-SQL Capabilities in SQL Server 2005 - Part 1 of 3

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:01:01 GMT

This month I'll start a three-part series on new Transact-SQL language features in SQL Server 2005. Microsoft added many new language features in SQL Server 2005, in response to developer requests and also in following compliance with the SQL-99 standard.

TSQL and CLR Performance Analysis

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:31:01 GMT

A performance analysis of different ways to use CLR objects and strategies for using them.