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Guidelines, Best Practices, TSQL and SQL Programming Tips & Tricks.

Converting hexadecimal values to varbinary and vice versa is now easier using the XQuery...

Date: 07/02/2008

Converting Base64 values to varbinary and vice versa is now easier using the XQuery functionality...

Date: 06/30/2008

I came across a question in the SQL Server MVP newsgroup recently about ISNULL and COALESCE usage....

Date: 06/26/2008

I came across a question in the relationalserver.performance newsgroup where a customer was...

Date: 08/30/2007

Bob Ward from PSS has a wonderful blog article that explains the details about the re-release of SQL...

Date: 04/11/2007

Check out the new Books Online search functionality online. The link below provides a scoped search...

Date: 03/30/2007

The SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard Reports are Reporting Services report files designed to be...

Date: 03/29/2007

SQL Server 2005 SP2 has an important enhancement to OBJECT_NAME metadata function and a new...

Date: 03/23/2007

I would like to announce the blog from my team - SQL Server Performance Engineering. Feel free to...

Date: 02/27/2007

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 has been released. You can find more information from the service...

Date: 02/19/2007

My team (Data & SQL Storage Performance Team) is conducting a survey on...

Date: 02/04/2007

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 December CTP is available now for download. You can download it from:...

Date: 12/19/2006

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) CTP has been released. You can provide feedback on the CTP...

Date: 11/08/2006

I have disabled anonymous comments due to the inordinate number of spam comments. And since I had...

Date: 11/04/2006

Hello Everyone, We are currently looking at top performance issues for various workloads and how we...

Date: 09/20/2006

Hello Everyone, We are currently looking at top performance issues for various workloads and how we...

Date: 09/20/2006

Did you know that the catalog views in SQL Server 2005 exposes metadata for various objects in a...

Date: 09/06/2006

DATALENGTH function in TSQL can be used to find the actual length in bytes of the data in a specific...

Date: 07/14/2006

Below are links to two new whitepapers from the storage engine team. Please check it out to get...

Date: 06/22/2006

SQL Server 2005 adds new capabilities to troubleshoot deadlocks. I talked about the new trace flag...

Date: 06/12/2006

SQL Server 2005 has new optimization logic to use the SCHEMABINDING option to derive certain...

Date: 06/12/2006

I saw an interesting question today in the MSDN Transact-SQL forum about implementing...

Date: 05/15/2006

Index Tuning Wizard (ITW in SQL Server 2000) or Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA in SQL Server...

Date: 02/14/2006

Did you know that SQL Server 2005 adds a new trace flag (-T1222) for deadlock trace output? This...

Date: 02/14/2006

I recently moved to the Central Performance Team in the SQL Server product group. My group is...

Date: 02/14/2006

You can find below the summary of responses for the top 5 features requested for next version of SQL...

Date: 10/17/2005

Did you know that SQL Server 2005 supports renaming logins? This can be done via ALTER LOGIN...

Date: 10/10/2005

An MVP recently sent us an email asking how to use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views to access temp...

Date: 10/07/2005

Here is an opportunity to discuss about the top 5 features that you would like to see in the next...

Date: 10/07/2005

Microsoft and Dell broke the $1 barrier with SQL Server 2005 x64 Standard Edition running on an...

Date: 10/07/2005

The question about what features are supported by SQL Server 2005 running on Windows Server 2003...

Date: 10/06/2005

I encountered a problem about a query not using a particular indexed view in SQL Server 2005. To...

Date: 10/05/2005

Please post requests for topics or features that you would like to know about. This can be any of...

Date: 09/22/2005

With SQL Server 2005, there are new ways to obtain richer metadata in a database and more...

Date: 09/16/2005

For optimal performance of multi-processor installations, we recommend that the MAXDOP setting...

Date: 09/14/2005

SQL Server 2005 introduces a revamped security model including users and schema separation &...

Date: 08/27/2005

SQL Server stores several configuration values like data path root, program directory, default...

Date: 08/19/2005

Database mirroring is one of the new high availability features in SQL Server 2005. More details on...

Date: 07/29/2005

Ordering guarantees of queries in various context is a common source of confusion. For example, a...

Date: 07/20/2005

I came across a question recently about discovering the constraints that are dependent on a column...

Date: 07/05/2005

Today I encountered a post in the Microsoft Technical forums where a user was trying to use the ANSI...

Date: 06/22/2005

SQL Server 2005 introduces a new TSQL feature that allows you to retrieve data affected by...

Date: 06/13/2005

Have you ever encountered a scenario in SQL Server 2000 where you want to test the connectivity of a...

Date: 06/07/2005

Updating a large table is a common scenario. This is often encountered in cases of applications that...

Date: 05/31/2005

Welcome to the SQL Server Engine Tips blog - hosted by the engine program management team. The...

Date: 05/19/2005