SQL Server Partition
Create a SQL Server table partition
How to create a table partition in SQL Server? Let’s consider a large table with Sales data. So, this table have a column that stores the year of the sale and the table stores …
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SQL Server Partition
What is a SQL Server table partition?
A SQL Server table partition allows to physically split the data of one table on the disk. This data division allows to access directly one unique partition instead of all the data from the …
SQL Server Index
SQL Server clustered index definition
What is a SQL Server clustered index ? The definition of a SQL Server index is a structure, i.e. a file, stored physically in a disk. It’s similar to the master data file and …
SQL Server Index
How to create a SQL Server index?
Create a SQL Server index to improve the performance of queries on tables and clustered views. Two types of index exists, the clustered and the nonclustered one. To create a nonclustered index, use this …
SQL Server Index
How to rebuild a SQL Server index?
Maintain the indexes is vital to keep a database up to speed with optimal performance. To rebuild an index, use the command to alter and rebuild. Technically speaking, the query rebuilding the index delete …
SQL Server Index
How to disable a SQL Server index?
How to disable a SQL Server index? To disable an index for performance reasons, use this code and adjust it to your index and table names. For instance, let’s consider a large sales table, …
SQL Server stored procedure
Create a SQL Server stored procedure
How to create a simple SQL Server stored procedure? This example in transact SQL code list all the Customers from the Customers table by using the selection function. This example do not use any …
SQL Server stored procedure
Alter a SQL Server stored procedure
How to alter an existing stored procedure in a SQL Server database? Simply use the alter command instead of the create command one to modify an existing SQL procedure. In this example let’s add …
DAX functions
Calculate year-to-date value in DAX with Power BI
How to calculate a year-to-date value of the sales in DAX with Power BI? Also called YTD, it represents the total to date of a given measure. For example, to calculate the year-to-date sales …
SQL Server Views
How to modify a SQL Server view?
How to modify an existing T-SQL view ? To develop a SQL Server database or more generally an application, create a database and tables is mandatory. The views are also very useful because they …