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Category: SQL Server

All things SQL Server

Clustered and Nonclustered Indexes Described

Posted on 01/09/201401/10/2014 by Lincoln Bovee'

Clustered Clustered indexes sort and store the data rows in the table or view based on their key values. These are the columns…

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SQL Server Roles

Posted on 01/09/201402/07/2014 by Lincoln Bovee'

SQL Server-level Roles • SysAdmin: Allows users to perform any activity on the server. • ServerAdmin: Permits users to manage configuration options on…

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SQL Administration Part 1

Posted on 01/09/201401/21/2019 by Lincoln Bovee'

Here are some SQL Administrative queries:

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SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('IsClustered')

sp_configure Use Type the following to see the options the system sproc “sp_configure” has available to…

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T-SQL Basic Command Examples

Posted on 01/08/201402/07/2014 by Lincoln Bovee'

Some of these snippets are useful when scripting schema changes, as opposed to using the GUI tools. For example, we have several instances…

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How to Find the last Execution DateTime for a Sproc

Posted on 01/08/201402/07/2014 by Lincoln Bovee'

Have you ever wanted to find out the last time a stored procedure was executed, if ever? Here is a T-SQL snippet that…

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Execution Plan Notes

Posted on 11/19/201310/09/2017 by Lincoln Bovee'

Clustered Index Seek: performed where there is a WHERE clause and the search parameter is included in the clustered index. Clustered Index Scan:…

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SQL Server 2012 DMV’s (Dynamic Management Views)

Posted on 09/23/201305/21/2015 by Lincoln Bovee'

Notes about DMV’s in General DMV data is discarded when the SQL Server service is restarted as it is stored in memory and…

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SQL Server 2012 Internals

Posted on 10/12/020103/27/2014 by Lincoln Bovee'

Life Cycle of a Query The command parser evaluates the query and generates a hash to see if the buffer pool has an…

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