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Is is possible to add an index to improve the performance of a stored procedure and accidently cause performance problems for another stored procedure?
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As a developer ORMs can be a real benefit, they can speed up development time significantly, and they offer a proven, standardised structure to your data access layer, if used well you can even write...
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Why is it that the following distributed select query (returning about 2,500 rows) takes almost 2 minutes:SELECT * FROM dbo.Calls c LEFT JOIN LINKEDSERVER.GM.dbo.cal gc ON c.GMID = gc.LOPRECID COLLATE...
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