I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

I was just wondering if anyone was dumping performance monitoring data to SQL Server tables?<BR><BR>Any tips, advice, thoughts in general on this?<BR><BR><BR>Lessons hard learned, ...

A SQL Server expert gives his take on the absolute, No. 1, very worst thing IT pros can do when it comes to indexing. Consultant, author and Microsoft MVP Denny Cherry travels the world helping ...

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Is it possible to enforce brackets instead of double quotes for sql server when escaping identifier, for example [Schema].[Table] Also this is more of a feature ask; is it possible to add a settings ...

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The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can take several seconds; with the ...

I know in Oracle you can use DBA_TAB_COLUMNS (or ALL_TAB_COLUMNS). My SQL Server knowledge is very rusty, but can't you use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS view?