<quote>I did pass on your suggestion about a profile trace to our systems engineer, but who knows if he will act on it, unfortunately.</quote>That's not good. You #need# to know where the bottleneck is! Try proving that everything else is ok - network speed, web server response etc.Certainly you should be getting a response in under a […]
2004-09-22
To help maintain index quality, defragging of any given index is a good thing. This will defrag ALL indecies in the current DB. NOTE: Schedule for off-hours operations. For a massive re-write of indecies, change the remarking on "--IF @indid" lines to use reindex instead of just defragging.
2004-09-21
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A short piece on indexing using multiple columns. For those of you that have 10 single column indexes, read a little about why you might choose to index on multiple columns.
2004-09-20
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Reports on all indexes on user tables within a databaseReports Tables with Missing Clustered indexReports Tables with Missing Primary KeysReports Possible Redundant Index keysReports Possible Reverse Index key
2006-12-21 (first published: 2004-09-16)
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What happens to SQL Server 2000 indexes over time? Fragmentation is one of the effects and Steve Jones looks at how you can work with and identity fragmentation.
2004-09-15
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2004-09-14
Hi,Is there any equivalent of MS Access FIRST() function in SQL Server 2000?I am looking for a workaround of FIRST function in SQL Server. Please help me out.Bye,Kamalanathan T.
2004-09-14
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Newbie here!!I am currently evaluating SSRS for our company use as opposed to CR, and am very impressd by what I have seen thus far, and will be demonstrating it to the IT folks sometime in the next week or so.I have also had the same problems using SProcs as datasets, and was interested in […]
2004-09-12
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I have written the following CASE statement for SQL7 which works fine but I would like to add the "year" on the expression2. Is there a way, could you advise?SELECT year(BillingDate)+ "Calendar Month" = ---- this option1 does not work or CASE WHEN DATEPART(month, BillingDate) = 1 THEN "January" +DATEPART(year, BillingDate)----this option2 does not work either […]
2004-09-11
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The solution I gave will update 14 million records since it is in the while loop (140 iterations of 100,000 records). However, the "first" 14 million records can not be guaranteed since there is no primary key. It would all depend on how SQL would return the data to you.If I may ask, how are you […]
2004-09-10
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