How To Get Table Row Counts Quickly And Painlessly
Use sysindexes\DMVs insead of select count(*) to retreive table row counts
2011-01-28 (first published: 2009-09-02)
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Kendal Van Dyke
Introducing MagicPASS - Orlando's New PASS Chapter
After a year of planning I'm proud to announce that South Orlando has a new PASS chapter: MagicPASS! Our first...
2011-01-13
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Resolutions For 2011
This post is a part of T-SQL Tuesday, a monthly event where SQL bloggers post about a common topic. This...
2011-01-11
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Presenting At SQLSaturday #62 - Tampa
Even though I live in Orlando - just a hop, skip, and jump away from Tampa - I've missed their SQLSaturday for...
2011-01-05
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SQLRally Session Voting Schedule Change
Jack Corbett posted the official announcement to his blog - I'm posting here as well to make sure we reach as...
2011-01-04
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2010 Goals Review
I started the year with 10 Goals for 2010 and now I'll end it by looking at how many of...
2010-12-31
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PASS Summit 2010 Session Eval Results
Speakers and bloggers alike crave feedback (good or bad) so I was excited to see my session evaluations from the...
2010-12-23
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Social Leadership And The SQL Community
2010 is rapidly coming to a close and in retrospect this has been a fantastic year of growth for the...
2010-12-17
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2010 PASS Summit Slide Decks and Scripts
How time flies - it really has been almost 2 1\2 weeks since the 2010 PASS Summit came to a close!...
2010-11-30
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2010 PASS Summit Recap
The 2010 PASS Summit has been over for a week and a half now and I've finally recovered & processed everything...
2010-11-23
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Blogs
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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