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SQL Server 2005 TSQL to obtain buffers by object (table, index) in the buffer cache?

Published 1 February 8 6:30 AM | SSQA.net

As a programmer interacting with SQL Server's cache is not often needed, but when you do need to determine what is going on with the cache, or you simply need to flush the execution plans or data pages to tune a query, you now have the means to do...

Filed under: sql server, indexes, memory, dmv, cache, buffer, table, tsql, configuration

SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition - make data available while creating indexes on large tables!

Published 25 January 8 3:41 AM | SSQA.net

Though it is not a best practice to perform a CREATE INDEX on large tables during the online hours where you have number of users accessing the metadata of SQL Server database. Within SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition you can perform ONLINE indexes operation...

Filed under: sql server, performance, indexes, cache, users, tsql, best practice, backups, create, online, monitoring, operating system, busy, creation

TSQL to findout blocking and locks on a SQL Server?

Published 7 December 7 1:8 PM | SSQA.net

Have you ever performed huge operations such as deleting records of a table and processing inserts on that table at the same time? This is a common task that every application will have to perform and you can avoid by fine tuning your queries (mostly...

Filed under: sql server, performance, indexes, blocking, security, insert, tsql, locks, deletes

SQL Server 2005: Slow running queries - Blocking and Index problems

Published 24 September 7 9:19 AM | SSQA.net

As a DBA you must be aware that slow or long running queries can contribute to excessive resource consumption and be the consequence of blocked queries. No database application is exception to this behaviour, so the queries that also run slowly because...

Filed under: sql server, indexes, blocking, dmv, blog, tsql, poor

How do I find all the statistics and statistics columns on a specified object?

Published 16 July 7 7:46 AM | SSQA.net

USE <database_name>; GO SELECT s.name AS statistics_name ,c.name AS column_name ,sc.stats_column_id FROM sys.stats AS s INNER JOIN sys.stats_columns AS sc ON s.object_id = sc.object_id AND s.stats_id = sc.stats_id INNER JOIN sys.columns AS c ON...

Filed under: sql server, performance, indexes, table, tsql, statistics, columns

Conditional Failed because the followng SET operations has incorrect settings: 'ARITHABORT'

Published 16 July 7 3:10 AM | SSQA.net

I got this error when trying to drop and create an index on a table. Create failed for index IX_USER_ID (Microsoft.SQLServer.Smo) Additional Information An exception occured while executing a transact sql statement or batch (Microsoft.SQLServer.ConnectionInfo...

Filed under: sql server, indexes, compiled, stored procedure, tsql, arithabort