About Collations in SQL Server
This post will be fore the purpose of documenting all my findings regarding Collations in SQL Server, including changing the collation on an…
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Some database design guidelines and best practices
Below are some best practices known within the SQL Server database community use when designing tables. 1. All data columns should be properly…
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How SQL Server processes a query
The logical order in which SQL Server parses a query and generates an execution plan: 1. FROM [left_table] 2. ON [join_condition] 3. [join_type]…
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A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
A good blog-post on joins from a visual aspect. Nicely done. A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins Views – 1284
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Resolving “Cannot resolve collation conflict for equal to operation”
I recently had to run a query for one of our developers where the script was inserting a number of rows. All went…
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Why using GUIDs as Primary Keys on a Clustered Index (Table) is not a good idea and some alternative approaches
Here is a great blog post by Kimberly Tripp on why using GUIDs as a PRIMARY KEY on a CLUSTERED index is a…
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Why use of VARCHAR(MAX) should be avoided
Here is a good blog post on a comparison of VARCHAR(MAX) versus VARCHAR(N): Performance comparison of varchar(max) vs. varchar(N) Views – 1237
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PASS 2015 – Seattle WA – Day 3
PASS 2015 10-28-30 Seattle WA SQL Server Indexing for Performance Kimberly Trip NOTE: Narrow NC indexes very rarely are useful. NOTE: Putting a…
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PASS 2015 – Seattle WA – Pre-Con Day 2 – Dmitri Korotkevitch
PASS 2015 10-27-30 Seattle WA Pre-Con Day 2 – SQL Server Internals – The Practical Angle Dmitri Korotkevitch Data Storage 101 Data Pages…
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PASS 2015 – Seattle WA – Pre-Con Day 1 – Pinal Dave
PASS 2015 10-26-30 Seattle WA Pre-Con Day 1 – 42 Tips to Performance Tuning, Optimization and Everything Pinal Dave TODO: Write missing index…
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