My first introduction to the APPLY operator was using the DMVs. For quite a while after first being introduced, I didn’t understand it or see a use for it. While it is undeniable that it is has some required uses when dealing with table valued functions, it’s other uses evaded me for a while. Luckily, [...]
Archive of posts filed under the SQL Server 2005 category.
Custom Pagination with Dynamic ORDER BY
SQL Server Denali has a new feature allowing pagination using the order by clause. A common solution needed for the front end is to paginate records prior to sending them to the webserver. More frequently now, we are seeing demormalized data sets being stored in the WebServer’s or a middle tiers cache mechanism. Those solutions [...]
SQL Server Slow Performance
This post deals with a random hanging that sometimes happens with SQL Server 2005+. In order to troubleshoot SQL Server Slowness, go here. The introduction of the new SQL Server 2005 Query Optimization engine has brought great things (including statement-level caching and smarter execution plan generation). There is however a little more overhead with the [...]
