Common SQL Server and Windows Clustering Questions and Problems
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Review: Total SQL Analyzer
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Improve System Performance in Your Indexing Scheme Using Asynchronous
The Web Data Administrator is a utility program implemented in ASP.NET that enables you to easily manage your SQL data, wherever you are.
A Few Mathematical UDFs
Alexander Chigrik presents a few Math UDFs he has developed for common functions.
Transactional Replication Performance Tuning and Optimization
This paper examines performance in transactional replication and demonstrates ways in which you can improve the performance of your applications. (30 printed pages)
An Alternative Way To Get the Table's Rowcount
This article examines an alternative method for finding the rowcount of a table besides using a select count(*)
COM+ Application Guidelines for Visual Basic Development
This 80-page reference article presents guidelines for designing, building, and deploying COM+ applications, with an emphasis on Visual Basic.
Introduction to SQL-DMO
SQL-DMO is a pretty cool way of working with SQL Server. Never tried it? Sean Burke offers a very readable introduction to how it works.
More on Returning a Subset of a Recordset
Last week's tip created quite a discussion on different techniques for returning a subset of a recordset.
Here are a few of the alternative solutions offered.
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Question of the Day
The LAGging NULL
I have this data in a SQL Server 2022 table:
player yearid team HR Alex Rodriguez 2012 NYY 18 Alex Rodriguez 2013 NYY 7 Alex Rodriguez 2014 NYY NULL Alex Rodriguez 2015 NYY 12 Alex Rodriguez 2016 NYY 9If I run this code, what are the results returned in the hrgrowth column?
SELECT player , yearid , hr , hr - LAG (hr, 1, 0) IGNORE NULLS OVER (ORDER BY yearid) AS hrgrowth FROM dbo.playerstats;See possible answers