People reading this post might really wonder of having read /heard about a concept on Dependency tracking in SQL Server 2008. It is nothing, but a set of built in existing SYS objects and their effective usage that help us save time & tedious efforts.
Every day, out in the various discussion boards devoted to Microsoft SQL Server, the same types of questions come up again and again: Why is this query running slow? Is my index getting used? Why isn't my index getting used? In order to arrive at the answer you have to ask the same return question in each case: have you looked at the execution plan? We are very pleased to be allowed to publish the first chapter of Grant Fritchey's excellent new book on execution plans.
SQL Server Integration Services is an incredibly rich and complex development environment that can handle almost any data movement task. Even those that do not involve SQL Server. Longtime author Tim Mitchell brings us a use that has nothing to do with SQL Server, but can be very handy for many of us.
A new feature for SQL Server? Steve Jones talks about a very interesting job posting from Microsoft.
A new feature for SQL Server? Steve Jones talks about a very interesting job posting from Microsoft.
A new feature for SQL Server? Steve Jones talks about a very interesting job posting from Microsoft.
Database developers need to write stored procedures which are not only fully functional, but also which perform acceptably. This article concentrates on some of the counters used to measure performance and analyses methods of capturing these counters.
I would like to share some interesting parameters I found for the undocumented extended stored procedure xp_ReadErrorLog. In doing some testing with this extended stored procedure I found four very interesting parameters. Adding to some of the articles already on the web that discuss undocumented stored procedures, in this article I will explain my testing, use and some examples of the procedure.
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