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	<title>SQL Server Performance &#187; FAQ</title>
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		<title>Introduction to SQL Server Check Constraints</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 02:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>satnam singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check Constraints play a very important role in SQL Server as it allows data validation rules to be imposed at the SQL Server instance level itself instead of writing rules for each application. Check Constraint enforces Domain Integrity by restricting the values that can be inserted into columns. Domain Integrity ensures that only a valid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Efficient T-SQL Code – A Case of Incorrect Use of a UNION Operator</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>satnam singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days back, I had a developer complaining me the slow performance of some T-SQL which was causing the application to throw a Timeout Expired error. During Investigation, I noticed that the developer made an incorrect use of a UNION operator which was the culprit. In this article, I will demonstrate the issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passing Parameters to An SSRS Report From The Front End</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franco Lopes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last article we saw how we can call the report from the front end using the report viewer component of Visual Studio. In real time scenarios we usually want to view a customized report with the custom parameters. In this article we are going look at how we can pass parameters to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automatically Retry A SQL Server Job After A Failed Step</title>
		<link>http://www.sql-server-performance.com/2012/automatically-retry-a-sql-server-job-after-a-failed-step/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 02:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Asanka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are running SQL Server jobs with numerous steps there can be failures due to network glitches or deadlocks. In such a scenario the DBA will typically restart the job from the failed step. However, there is an option in SQL Server Agent to automatically retry the job, which is under utilized by many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Mining Add-ins Error</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Asanka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When using Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data Mining Add-ins you may encounter the below error: Error (Data mining): Session mining objects (including special data source views used to process data mining dimensions) cannot be created on this instance The reason this occurs is that the Data Mining tool needs to create session mining models in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overview of Template Explorer Feature in SQL Server Management Studio</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashish Kumar Mehta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article will give you an Overview of Template Explorer Feature in SQL Server Management Studio which was initially introduced in SQL Server 2005. SSMS has a variety of inbuilt templates which contains SQL Scripts that can help you create objects within SQL Server Database. Let&#8217;s work through an example of using the Template Explorer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Connections for A Single Database</title>
		<link>http://www.sql-server-performance.com/2012/finding-connections-one-single-database/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Asanka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During trouble-shooting you may want to find all the connections relevant to one database. You can use sp_who2 but the problem with that is it can return a lot of results for all connections and you need to scroll through entire result set. The following script will return connections relevant to one database with other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Replication Publications For A Table</title>
		<link>http://www.sql-server-performance.com/2012/replication-publication-table/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sql-server-performance.com/2012/replication-publication-table/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Asanka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to drop or rename a table, you will need to make ensure the table is not an article of a publication. If it is article for any publication, you need to find out what are those publications. If you have several publications and if one table is an article for many publications, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Stored A Procedure with Temp Tables for SSIS Packages</title>
		<link>http://www.sql-server-performance.com/2012/using-stored-a-procedure-with-temp-tables-for-ssis-packages/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sql-server-performance.com/2012/using-stored-a-procedure-with-temp-tables-for-ssis-packages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Asanka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using stored procedure with temp tables for SSIS packages. Some stored procedures are complex and so require temporary tables or table variables. Let us say we have the following procedure to extract data. CREATE PROC ProcWithTableVariable AS DECLARE @Table TABLE (id Int) INSERT INTO @Table VALUES (1),(2) SELECT * FROM @Table And SSIS OLE DB [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verify Whether a SQL Server Agent Job is Running</title>
		<link>http://www.sql-server-performance.com/2012/check-sql-server-agent-job-running-tsql/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sql-server-performance.com/2012/check-sql-server-agent-job-running-tsql/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Asanka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I posted an faq about Finding Running SQL Server Agent Jobs I had several few emails and queries on how verify whether a job is running by using only a TSQL script. The below script will verify if the job exists and whether or not it is running. DECLARE @jobname sysname ='Running Job' -- [...]]]></description>
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