How to create a SQL trace using T-SQL
Some users want to know if there is a way to monitor events on SQL server without using SQL Profiler. Yes, there is: the engine support behind SQL Profiler is the feature called SQL Trace which is in…
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Find Best Clustered Index
The following query will compare the nonclustered indexes vs the clustered index and determine which index would qualify as the best clustered index based upon the DMV statistics. If a clustered in…
Find Table without Clustered Index / Primary Key
One of the basic Database Rule I have is that all the table must Clustered Index. Clustered Index speeds up performance of the query ran on that table. Clustered Index are usually Primary Key but not…
Using TRY...CATCH to Rollback a Transaction in case of an error
As you all might know, one of the downsides of the @@ERROR variable approach to catch the error is that we must check the value of this variable after each and every DML /DDL statement to determi…