Unlike foreign keys, primary keys and unique indexes cannot be “untrusted”. There’s no “NOCHECK” option for unique constraints. The closest… Read More »The "IGNORE_DUP_KEY" option in Primary Keys and Unique Indexes
One fateful night, cold and dreary, I’ve stumbled upon how collations can significantly affect performance in SQL Server… Yes, really!
While normalizing a table in their database, one of my clients had weird and inconsistent performance problems and couldn’t find a solution for it for quite a while.
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is an excellent and easy-to-use platform for creating, viewing, managing, and subscribing to reports of… Read More »Using Reporting Services as your Software Frontend