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Hierarchical data best practices

I'm looking for a best practicies\databases to solve our problem: Currently we are using SQL Server 2008 R2 with HierarchyId. It works ok, but we have a lot of performance penalties due to this ...
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Force sql server to run query conditions as written?

Im using Sql server 2008 R2 And I have this pseudo query (SP) : select ... from ... WHERE @LinkMode IS NULL AND (myColumn IN (...very long time exeted query...)) ... ... The ...
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Bulk Data Loading and Transaction Log

im currently working on a project which bulk import data from flat files(csv) about 18 differents files each linking to a specific table through some store procedure. I followed the steps as advised ...
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Why is this query not using my nonclustered index, and how can I make it?

As follow up to this question about increasing query performance, I'd like to know if there is a way to make my index used by default. This query runs in about 2.5 seconds: SELECT TOP 1000 * FROM ...
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can sql generate a good plan for this procedure?

I have read that procs that do not always do the same thing per se, will not always have a good plan generated. That is (correct me if I'm wrong), if I have a proc that if the day is even it reads ...
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REBUILD - Clustered Index, TABLE, or both?

I'm having trouble finding a definitive resource on this anywhere, so hopefully a guru can give me an answer here. I have a very large table that we had to add a column to. The clustered index is ...
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Optimization: Moving variable declarations to the top of your procedure

While working on optimizing some stored procedures, I sat down with the DBA and went through some sprocs with high blocking and/or high read/write activity. One thing the DBA mentioned was I should ...
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Where to look for a bottleneck after elimitating CPU, memory, and disk

I have a database job that runs each night to create a warehouse table. Using my new database server and SAN I have gotten the process down from 4 1/2 hours to 35 minutes. I have optimized it to run ...