Igor Micev

I'm a passionate SQL Server professional with 10+ years of experience with databases. Developer, Administrator and Architect with 10+ years of expertise in data analysis, design, programming, performance tuning, upgrades, migrations, high availability solutions implementation, backup & recovery strategies and database capacity planning expertise.

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The COUNT Function in T-SQL

The COUNT function is among the most used functions in the T-SQL codes. Even though COUNT is easy to use, it should be used carefully because it could often not return the desired result. For the big tables, the counting of the rows could cause blocking as well as take some more time.

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2018-02-09 (first published: )

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