One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

One of the most common problems when running SQL Servers is slow queries. The help desk or database team usually hears that described as the application is slow or the database is slow. In the ...

As I discussed in an earlier column, SQL Server keeps a plan cached for each query it sees (assuming the query requires planning in the first place, of course). That's great for speeding up processing ...

When your SQL query is ready, you can run the query immediately or you can add a title, change its options, limit its output, and so on, to make the report look better. See Viewing the SQL Code, ...

Both approaches can synchronize SQL Server data between your primary and secondary servers—synchronously or asynchronously—and both work closely with the HA solution to facilitate failover in an ...

Studies provide some insight into where things stand. Research firm IDC estimates that, globally, around 800,000 servers are still running SQL Server 2005. A database platform upgrade is by no means a ...

Hello,I need to compute a running total in a sql query for a report. Presently, I calculate my running total by means of a cursor. As my data being reported on is ever expanding and my cursor ...