Adam Machanic, Boston-based independent database consultant, writer, and speaker, shares his experiences with programming, performance tuning, and optimizing SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008, in conjunction with related technologies such as .NET.
October 2006 - Posts
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On October 20, 2004 -- two years ago -- I announced that I was considering writing my own query load testing tool . Clearly, my follow through on this promise has been incredibly delayed. But all is not lost, and I'm happy to report that I am true to Read More...
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SQL Server 2000 included a very useful extended stored procedure called xp_execresultset . This XP had two parameters: @cmd and @dbname . @cmd was expected to be a SELECT statement that would produce a single column of output, each row of which would Read More...
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When working with SQL Server 2000, I used to have this little trick I'd pull out after exhausting all other ideas for tuning a query. And I thought that my little trick was dead in SQL Server 2005, but thanks to fellow SQL Server MVP Rob Farley , I am Read More...
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