Another holiday...

Aaah another week @ home!
Although holiday is a big word... some heavy construction work going on :-p I have to prepare the room for my first little one which is on the way!

Happy happy, joy joy :-D

Microsoft hates DBAs

Funny article about SQL Server 2005 and the CLR integration :-)

bit or tinyint

I'm looking for some information about the following:
Is it better to use a tinyint field instead of a bit field if you are going to index it? Some people say it would probably be better to use a tinyint because the bit has to be extracted from the bitmask causing some overhead. I haven't found any real deep technical information about this but it sounds acceptable.

So if any of you have real hardcore stuff please post a comment :-D

In case I find some info I'll obviously send a little update!

Insufficient result space to convert uniqueidentifier value to char.

I needed a char representation of a GUID field but couldn't retrieve it because of an obscure error :-s

Insufficient result space to convert uniqueidentifier value to char.

This was caused by a CAST as varchar without specifying the length (or a too short length).

Just using CAST(field as char(36)) solved the problem.

Understanding TempDB, table variables v. temp tables and Improving throughput for TempDB

Yet another great post of one of my favorite SQL Server gurus :)

Finding Duplicate Indexes in Large SQL Server Databases

A nice article on how to detect duplicate indexes.
I suppose it happens more than you think...

Create a PDF from a stored procedure without using 3rd party utils

Hmm, a very funky way to create a PDF in SQL Server :-)
Check it out.

I can't say that I'm a fan of such practices but who knows someone might be able to use it out there.