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Linq for Set Logic

How is your skills with Linq? The reason I ask is because I find a lot of set problems work nicely in Linq much as they do in SQL. You can do joins, grouping order aggregation filtering and much more. The concepts are very similar to SQL, but different enough that it takes a little amount o f work to […]

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Tips for using constraints in SQL Server 2014

Tips for using constraints in SQL Server 2014 Use CHECK constraints instead of rules. Rules are provided for backward compatibility and have been replaced by CHECK constraints. Constraints are much more efficient than rules and can boost performance. Rules have some restrictions. For example, only one rule can be applied to a column, but multiple CHECK constraints can be applied....

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Blooms

(David Fitzjarrell) In Oracle releases 10.2.0.x and later join processing can be made more efficient by the use of Bloom filters, primarily to reduce traffic between parallel query slaves. What is a Bloom filter? Named after Burton Howard Bloom, who came up with the concept in the 1970s, it’s an eff

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Query Cached Execution Plans

(Derik Hammer) Often I need to examine an execution plan from a production server. Just as often, I can’t re-run the stored procedure in that environment. There are several techniques for simulating the environment on a test server such as exporting statistics and using the un-documented DBCC AUTOPI