I have some coworkers that haven’t worked a lot with sql subqueries. Subqueries are a great tool, but can be confusing for folks who have limited sql experience. It’s my opinion that, like any code, good naming, proper formatting and …

I’ve been looking into table partitioning as a way to manage large historical tables. The idea is to be able to keep the size of the table reasonably static as new rows are inserted by removing older rows. My goal …

Recently I had a need to assign a user DBO to all databases on a server.

I put this script together, it seems to do the trick.

declare @login varchar(255)='testuser'

declare @databasename varchar(255),
        @sql varchar(max)

declare xcn cursor fast_forward local 

To create a CLR stored procedure in SQL Server….

I used this nice blog posting by Scott Sutherland as a starting point:
https://blog.netspi.com/attacking-sql-server-clr-assemblies/

If you are using SQL Server 2017 it will be necessary to sign your CLR assembly.

If …

I’ve just posted an updated version of my SQL Script Mover utility on codeplex, here: https://sqlscriptmove.codeplex.com

This is a utility for extracting schema from a sql server database. It supports views, stored procedures, functions, tables, triggers and DDL triggers.

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Here are some thoughts on optimizing stored the performance of stored procedures.

In no particular order:

Clustered Indexes

Make sure your tables have clustered indexes.

It’s amazing to me that folks create tables without clustered indexes. A clustered index is …

The excellent Joseph Albahari, author of LINQpad, wrote a blog post: Why LINQ beats SQL and while I really like LINQpad (how else would I debug LINQ?)  I do think Joseph misses the point a little with SQL. He …

I’ve been doing some performance testing of sql recently and wanted lots of data to work with. I didn’t want real data, with names and other confidential information. I’ve been using a function I created a few years ago and …

I’ve been working with sql server for a long time. I like sql, I like the immediate feedback that I get from working in SQL Management Studio, and because I do have a lot of experience I can quickly construct …