SQL Development

Tips Developers Must Know Reading Query Plans Guest post by Pinal Dave If you are a developer, you might have heard this from your DBA – “That query plan has some problems”. This blog would help you in understanding those “problems” which DBA might be talking about. We would talk about tips which can help a developer in finding some of these “problems” themselves without getting deeper into the topic. There are two types of plans SQL Server engine can generate in general. They are known as “Estimated” plan and “Actual” plan. When we ask...
Rapid SQL Query Builder Tips and Techniques by Dan Hotka Hi! Don’t you just love a good SQL query builder? I found this tool in Rapid SQL easy to learn and easy to produce the SQL I desired. You start it from the menu item Tools à Query Builder. This opens a new tab that contains the available objects on the left, a canvas for the objects when selected on the right and the SQL that gets created as you select various options. Notice in the upper left that you can use Query Builder to create SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and Create Vie...
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3 Leadership Tips That Define Success by Pinal Dave   Check out this guest post by industry expert Pinal Dave who provides 3 leadership tips to define success in any industry. Every individual has their own set of leaders they look up to in their daily life. I am sure each and every one reading this blog post has a number of leaders who have influenced the way s/he runs this/her business or life. Be it in Politics or in social circles – there are leaders who have made us proud and rallied people in doing the impossible and achieving the im...
SQL Server Tip: Optimizer using Index Scan and not Seek! Other than coding, most of the time developers have to troubleshoot problems from their environments. Developers in SQL world would mostly face problems around error message, getting required output via T-SQL query and unpredictable performance of query.  One fine day somewhere in the world a one developer was troubleshooting a performance problem – just like any one of us. He noticed, even after a table has index on a column and if they use that column in where clause, SQL Server was...
Performance Improvements with SQL Server 2014 Whenever there is new model of any vehicle launched in the market, it is expected it should have some enhancements or new features which would make it superior from previous model. If the features are appealing, generally customers are positive and forthcoming to pay little more than previous model. Above theory holds good for SQL Server product as well. It is expected that SQL Server 2014 should have some new enhancements as compared to the predecessor SQL Server 2012 version. In SQL Server 20...

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