The following applies to SQL Server 2008. How big of an allocation does max represent in the case of varchar(max) and varbinary(max)? Up to 2 ^ 31 – 1 bytes or just about 2gb. Can I specify a varchar(9000) …
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Cleaning up extra indexes, and implementing parameterized queries. I don’t know how many times I have had to explain the difference between a clustered index and a non-clustered index. In the end it is all good. Better performance, faster software, …
The quick and easy way to determine how much memory your SQL Server is using is to look at the Task Manager on the server and find “sqlservr.exe” in the process list, and look at the “Mem Usage” column. But …
I recently have had the opportunity to work on performance tuning on Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Recently I have been doing more with performance tuning on Oracle. The following is something that I have discovered to be very similar between …
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This week I started working at Emergency Reporting doing database performance tuning and scalability work. Currently this is a half time gig focused on SQL Server database performance. Fun stuff.
SQL Server can run in a number of different compatibility levels, but how do you change it and how do you set it. These compatibility levels reflect the version of SQL server. 60 = SQL Server 6.0 65 = SQL …
Since I am no longer paying for an broadcast television service (other than Netflix). Not satellite, no cable TV, and no broadcast TV. Now I am 100% internet TV, I guess I should say 100% legal internet TV.
A week or so ago I heard someone on the radio talking about Open DNS as a way to help protect children from some of the nasty sites on the internet. After using it now for about a week, I …
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Leaving the corporate world and going freelance.
MySQL is to Oracle as Linux is to Windows. Limiting Result Sets Oracle supports ROWNUM to limit the result Sets SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE rowmun < 10 MySql uses the LIMIT clause. SELECT * FROM tablename LIMIT 10 Bind …