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Considering Parallel plans and forcing plans for better performance
23 October 07 06:55 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
Parameterizing T-SQL queries are a well-known task such as database programming and best practice in some tasks. It allows query plan reuse and eliminates the need of recompilation for multiple invocations of the same query that simply has different parameter Read More...
Disk Space Requirements for Index DDL Operations
28 September 07 06:38 AM | SQL Master | 3 Comments   
Are you watching your disk space during the indexes operations where these database objects are stored? Recently I was stumped on a database that is only 5GB had reindexing process failure due to 10% of disk free space was available. For your information Read More...
Usage and good practices with UPDATE STATISTICS feature in SQL 2005
23 July 07 03:39 AM | SQL Master | 1 Comments   
UPDATE STATISTICS is very helpful to get the performance by updating the distribution of key values for one or more statistics groups or set of collections in the specified table or indexed view. So how this is handled within the SQL Server, you may be Read More...
Get statistics on Query plan optimizer execution
11 May 07 02:48 AM | SQL Master | 2 Comments   
As you might know PERFMON (SYSMON) and DMVs in SQL 2005 are very handy to know internal resource information about the SQL Server engine. So you might be thinking what might be the cause of this poor performance when you have a simple query to run and Read More...