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In November 2011, I wrote a post titled SQL Server – Performance – Best Practice – Create Index Before or After a data insert?. The post dealt with answering the question - which method was better – whether to create an index before or after a bulk-insert? The post was essentially targeted to code t......
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I recently had the opportunity to view some of the newest courses from Pluralsight, an organization that offers online training courses for developers. One of the courses that I viewed was the SQL Server Questions & Answers (http://www.pluralsight-training.net/microsoft/Courses/TableOfContents?c......
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As you know, I recently completed a 10-part tutorial series on the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). As I finished writing the tutorial, I remembered that one of the issues most SQL Server developers encounter are the slow load times of the SSMS. Sometimes, SSMS is just not fast enough for a quic......
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All systems are susceptible to failure. No software is perfect, and therefore it is natural that SSMS too will fail. Today, I have put together some of the most common failures that I have experienced with SSMS and their known workarounds. The reason I have kept this part of the tutorial as a L200 ......
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As mentioned in Part 01 of this tutorial series, one of the key responsibilities of SSMS was to replace the erstwhile SQL Server Enterprise Manager – the interface that is used to manage & maintain the SQL Server instance configuration. In addition to the tools and utilities available within the......
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One of the most important aspects of SQL Server administration and maintenance is the ability to review and changing the existing configuration of the server. In Part 01 of this tutorial series, I had mentioned that one of the key responsibilities of SSMS was to replace the erstwhile SQL Server Ente......
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The SQL Server Management studio contains many pop-up utilities and tools that help in improving the productivity of our day-to-day database administration and maintenance tasks. While most of these would be implemented using T-SQL code in production, these tools & utilities are a great way to g......
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The SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) continues to fascinate me with it’s immense wealth of features geared towards developer & administrator usability. What’s more amazing is that some features perform multiple useful functions depending upon the context. Today, we will have a look at one suc......
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The SQL Server Management Studio is truly an Integrated Development Environment. There are utilities, tools and graphical designers available within SSMS which are useful to audiences of multiple levels. The graphical designers are a set of utilities, which allow one to perform basic SQL Server deve......
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For those who have worked in Enterprise environments, documentation is of utmost importance. Documentation can be in the form of a text-based document, or a graphical document (in the form of a diagram). A data dictionary is a centralized repository of information about data such as meaning, relati......
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