I recently presented at SQL Saturday 184 in North Haven and was able to listen to Grant Fritchey’s present “Query Tuning in the Clouds”. What I got out of the presentation was the sense all your tuning skills could be used to optimize a Windows Azure SQL database. I knew Windows Azure SQL Databases have been around for a couple of years but never had the time or need to research them. With a possible data center consolidation in the future, I was wondering if my company could leverage a…
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Full Text Search – Part 3
Tonight, I want to revisit the [WILD LIFE] database that we were using last time. The main goal is to correctly search the [ANIMALS] table returning all [NAME]’s that contain the word fly. We want the query plan associated with our query to use a index to speed up overall execution time. The first solution to this business problem resulted in FULL TABLE SCANS or CLUSTERED INDEX SCANS. Please see the desciptions of graphical icons that can show up in a query plan. Since every record in the table has…
Searching Stored SQL – Part 4
There are four main database objects that contain stored SQL: VIEWS, TRIGGERS, FUNCTIONS and STORED PROCEDURES. Earlier today, I created a pattern searching tool for FUNCTIONS. I am going to clone and modify the code so that it will work with VIEWS. Again, I want to examine the dynamic SELECT statement that retrieves the user defined stored procedure names from a given database. This is the key element of the whole program. I took the liberty to modify the original code so that it will work standalone. The current code…
Searching Stored SQL – Part 3
There are four main database objects that contain stored SQL: VIEWS, TRIGGERS, FUNCTIONS and STORED PROCEDURES. Yesterday, I created a pattern searching tool for TRIGGERS. Today, I am going to clone and modify the code so that it will work with FUNCTIONS. Again, I want to examine the dynamic SELECT statement that retrieves the user defined stored procedure names from a given database. This is the key element of the whole program. I took the liberty to modify the original code so that it will work standalone. The current code…
Searching Stored SQL – Part 2
There are four main database objects that contain stored (compiled) SQL: VIEWS, TRIGGERS, FUNCTIONS and STORED PROCEDURES. Yesterday, I created a pattern searching tool for SQL code in STORED PROCEDURES. Today, I am going to clone and modify the code so that it will allow pattern searching on TRIGGERS. First, I want to examine the dynamic SELECT statement that retrieves the user defined stored procedure names from a given database. This is the key element of the whole program. I took the liberty to modify the original code so that…
Searching Stored SQL – Part 1
Today, I am going to start building on some the articles I did in the past. We are going to create tools to pattern search stored SQL statements. Four main objects that contain stored SQL are VIEWS, TRIGGERS, FUNCTIONS and STORED PROCEDURES. Recently at work, I was asked to find all SQL code that had a certain business rule. The task is to return all objects that reference to a certain temperature process named T1. One solution to this problem is to buy a tool like SQL Search from Red…