Email address: petkovic@fh-rosenheim.de
Dusan Petkovic
   

Dusan Petkovic is professor of database systems at the Polytechnic in Rosenheim, Germany. He is the author of several books about database systems, including SQL Server 2005: A Beginner’s Guide (Osborne McGraw-Hill).

Through a special arrangement with Osborne/McGraw-Hill, we invite you to preview a chapter from Dusan's new book on SQL Server Security

Email address: petkovic@fh-rosenheim.de

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June 2006

Open Windows of Opportunity This article is only available to subscribers. Sign up now and get instant access!

Aggregate and rank window functions benefit BI projects.

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December 2001

Taming the Skew This article is only available to subscribers. Sign up now and get instant access!

SQL Server's query optimizer effectively executes queries that access skewed data, but you can help improve the response time of such queries. Here's how.

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June 2000

Indexing for Sort Performance This article is only available to subscribers. Sign up now and get instant access!

Defining the right indexes on sort columns can yield dramatic performance results for queries that need ordered data.

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January 2000

Which is Faster: Index Access or Table Scan? This article is only available to subscribers. Sign up now and get instant access!

It can be difficult to determine whether a table scan or an index will provide better query performance. The answer depends in part, on the percentage of rows returned, but another important factor is whether you use a clustered or nonclustered index.

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July 1999

New Features for Query Processing This article is only available to subscribers. Sign up now and get instant access!

The query processor is one of the most important database system components that influence the management of large databases. SQL Server 7.0's focus is on new techniques for maximizing your query performance.

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