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A Saturday with Zoho Writer

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:16:37 GMT

Check out the product review of an excellent online word processing software from Zoho (an Adventnet company).

Easiest / fastest way to Delete ALL records in a Database

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:23:27 GMT

One of the very common activities a SQL developer face is to flush records from ALL the tables in their development database. Though "Delete" and "Truncate" commands can be used to flush records in a table the issue is we can't use them directly if we have constraints attached to some of the tables. One of the solutions is to "Delete" records in the tables in an orderly fashion. Like, "Delete" the child table first and then the parent table. As long as there are limited number of tables in the Database this solution is more than enough. But for those databases where there are lots of tables with constraints this solution would be pretty tough to implement. In those cases, try out my solution which I have explained later in this article.

Quick search within ALL stored procedures ...

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:46:01 GMT

This article would explain in detail the methods involved in searching strings within ALL stored procedures. I am sure there might have been situation where you want to find out a stored procedure where you remember writing some complex logic. Won't it be nice if we can find out that stored procedure where we have already written that important piece of code .. so that we can reuse? If your answer is "yes" read on.

Different Types of Partitioning Operations in SQL Server 2005 ...

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:44:02 GMT

In this article let me explain about the three different types of Operations one can do with Partitions. They are: 1. Split Partition 2. Merge Partition 3. Switch Partition (Important of the lot) Before reading further, make sure that you have read my earlier posts on ....

Example for Creating and using Partitions in SQL Server 2005

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:41:12 GMT

Lets assume that we have table which contains records of our company transaction starting from the date when our company was started 15 years ago! Hope you would understand that the table would have hell a lot of data as it would be holding 15 years of data. But effectively we might be using only last 2 months or 1 year data at the max (very frequently). For each query, it would be processing through this huge data. Bottomline as the table grows larger the performance would go for a toss, also scalabiity and managing data would also be difficult ...

Paging in SQL Server 2000 and 2005 ...

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:16:01 GMT

In this article I have discussed in detail about the easier way of paging records using SQL Server 2005. In the due course I have introduced the nuances of using TOP keyword and the cool enhancements added to it. Along with that I would show you how to use TOP command to do paging in SQL Server 2000, albeit at a performance loss, then show how the same result can be achieved with higher performance thanks to new features in SQL Server 2005.