Will You Run Out Of INT And BIGINT Identities In SQL Server?
In the war over Identities vs GUIDs as clustered indexes, one of the arguments in favor of Unique Identifiers is that you may run out of numbers when using a …
Nuggets Of SQL Server Knowledge
In the war over Identities vs GUIDs as clustered indexes, one of the arguments in favor of Unique Identifiers is that you may run out of numbers when using a …
I have a confession. When I was a developer, I didn’t understand indexes in SQL Server. I rarely added them to my tables, and when I did there was not …
While storing passwords in a database may be a common practice, storing them properly usually isn’t so common. This is part of a storing passwords blog series where we will examine …
While storing passwords in a database may be a common practice, storing them properly usually isn’t so common. This is the first of a series of posts where we will …
In SQL Server, an index is used to speed the retrieval of data from a table. Indexes are built from one or more columns in the table, and SQL Server uses these Indexes …
In SQL Server, an index is used to speed the retrieval of data from a table. Indexes are built from one or more columns in the table, and SQL Server uses these Indexes …
One nasty habit that seems to persist throughout the ages with developers (I even did it myself) is the tendency to put “sp_” at the beginning of stored procedure names …
When working with developers, I’ve noticed that some have a tendency to put WITH (NOLOCK) on every table in a SELECT query. When I inquire about this, the typical response I …
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