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Internal Tables in SQL Server 2005, what are they for?
By default SQL Server automatically creates the internal tables for Full-text search, XML indexes and Service broker. These are also created when a user query is written poorly that uses tempdb heavily. At they are called internal tables but do not contain Read More...
DBCC EXTENTINFO - unused pages in these extents (undocumented)
When it comes to resolving table fragmentation, the basic checkout you perform is to run DBCC INDEXDEFRAG or even run DBCC DBREINDEX statements. As per the default configuraiton SQL Database Engine allocates a new extent to an allocation unit only when Read More...
Triggers within CLR - advantage over TSQL
You may be aware the DML and DDL triggers can be nested up to 32 levels, because any reference to such trigger code counts as one-level in the nesting limit. Even though it is possible to control whether AFTER triggers can be nested through the nested Read More...
Failed to claim unused space with SP_SPACEUSED?
Recently I have been stumped by not cliaming unused space correctly even though after delete handful of rows on a table. You may be aware using SP_SPACEUSED will get you details such as : Column name Data type Description database_name nvarchar(128) Name Read More...
Error: Could not find row in sysindexes for database. 8966, 823 and 602
Long ago, not long ago.... No doubt that many of you might have gone through the error above within your SQL environment, also I see many forum posts out there to resolve the issue. The bottom line of this issue is Hardware and no other issue can contribute Read More...
Capitals or small letters - which one you choose when you are writing TSQL code?
Have you ever gave a thought about writing a code within your development environment, I'm talking about writing TSQL scripts and not going for programming languages such as C# or ASP.net. So what is your favourite in this case: Look at this SQLBlog discussion, Read More...
SQL 2005 TSQL Script to list tables, indexes, file groups along with file names
Here is the script I have used to list the information regarding database objects such as tables, indexes and file groups along with their file names : ( extracted from Technet ) select 'table_name'=object_name(i.id) ,i.indid ,'index_name'=i.name ,i.groupid Read More...