by Ian Bachman-Sanders | Aug 31, 2014 | SQL coding
I’ve written a new article on Indexed Views that has been www.DatabaseJournal.com As part of that article I included a UDF, udf_View_ColumnsIndexableTAB, that shows which columns in a view are eligible for indexing. It’ll be next week’s UDF of the...
by Ian Bachman-Sanders | Aug 31, 2014 | SQL coding
Indexed views are the topic of an article that I’ve written. It was published last week on DatabaseJournal. You can see it at: http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/2119721 You probably got the special notice that I sent last week when it was...
by Ian Bachman-Sanders | Aug 1, 2014 | Problems Solved, SQL coding, SQL Performance
This UDFs week solves a problem posed to me last week by a friend Gary. Gary wants to select a random row from one of his tables and was hoping that SQL Server would have some support for this task. The idea of selecting a random row runs counter to the ideas that...