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SQL Server Joins

Vidhya Sagar — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:08:37 +0000

SQL Server Joins

Variable and Assignment enhancements – SQL Server 2008

Vidhya Sagar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:45:27 +0000

Variable and assignment enhancements are small plus points in SQL Server 2008. We have around 4 things to discuss under this and they are below. All of these are mostly helpful to developers. Declare Statement Compound Assignment Operators Row Constructors …

Return Code Values Documentation for sp_send_dbmail procedure

Vidhya Sagar — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:57:29 +0000

I saw a question on MSDN forums today about return code values documentation for sp_send_dbmail procedure. Microsoft has not documented these return values to the user because when an error exists in the code the user will get a clear …

FORCESEEK Hint – SQL Server 2008

Vidhya Sagar — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:17:05 +0000

New article posted on “Forceseek Hint” in SQL Server 2008. Check it out from the link below. Forceseek hint is a new addition to SQL Server 2008. It forces the query optimizer to use an Index seek instead of Index …

MERGE Statement – SQL Server 2008

Vidhya Sagar — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:00:31 +0000

New article posted on Merge statement for SQL Server 2008. You can check the article from the link below. In earlier versions of SQL Server in order to perform INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE we have to have separate T-SQL statements. …

Temp table VS Table variable

Vidhya Sagar — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:47:12 +0000

New article on “Temp table VS Table variable” is posted in main website. Check it out from the link below Most of the SQL Developers/DBA would have come across a situation where they need to store the temporary result sets. …

Script to CHECK Startup procedures in SQL Server

Vidhya Sagar — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:14:15 +0000

Today while checking a server for SQL Server startup performance issue, I’m in thought of listing the startup procedures and to analyze those procedures for any issues. But when I google I couldn’t find any script to list out the startup …

How To Check SQL SERVER Uptime Through T-SQL

Vidhya Sagar — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:03:31 +0000

Introduction Services uptime can be checked through WMI scripts and other methods also. As a DBA most of us would like to know the uptime of SQL Server, i.e how much time is SQL Server running till the server is …

Diskspace Check via SQLServer

Vidhya Sagar — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:47:54 +0000

I’m writing this script since most of them are looking a way to find total diskspace available in a drives through sql server. I hope there is no extended procedure for this. I’ve used WMI script to do this, download …

Difference between TRUNCATE and DELETE command

Vidhya Sagar — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:16:41 +0000

Lets see the difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE command as below DELETE TRUNCATE DML Statement DDL Statement Data Rollback is possible, all the row by row data deletion will be recorded in transaction log Rollback is possible for entire table …