Category: General

  • SQL 2005 Edition Comparison

    Introduction: SQL Server 2005 comes with different editions with each having features that are either available in the other or not. This document lists the comparison of the features available between the different editions.

  • Isolation Levels

    Introduction: This article provides an easy-to-understand view of what Isolation Levels really mean and when to use which level. Isolation Level is a setting that decides how data which is a part of an ongoing transaction is made visible to other transactions.

  • Locks & Locking Hints

    Introduction: Locking, Locks and Deadlocks are words that a developer/DBA does not want to hear in real life but still there are possibilities that we hear them because of some bad code written. This article takes you on to the type of locks available in SQL server and the ways of avoiding them using the…