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Monday, January 31, 2011

Working with recent projects in visual studio dot net start page.

It can be actual thing. which you are searching?

1 Manage your Project list or File list in Visual Studio .Net Start Page.
Just Follow the step - Given Below

Go to - Tools - Option - Recent Files - and then set number of items How much you want to show in your Recent Project list

 

2 Remove or Clear your unwanted items from your "Recent Projects" list.
Here is an nice tip on how to clear the "Recent Project" list:




To remove the projects from the list, follow these steps:
  1. Close Visual Studio if it is running.
  2. Start the Registry Editor (run regedit).
    Registry Editor
  3. Navigate to this registry key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList
    Registry Editor 2
  4. Then delete the key that has the project you do not want to keep in the list.
A little note to keep in mind is that the list only lists consecutive items starting File1. So if in the above list I deleted File6, then only projects corresponding to File1 to File5 will be displayed in the recent project list. File7 and above will not be displayed. If in case you like File7 and above to be displayed, you will need to rename one of the keys so that they form a consecutive numbered list.
3 Another Simple way is
Create one Text file "Clear.txt" and add below contents in it

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList]

Save and Close the file and rename is as "Clear.reg"; that is Registry file. Double Click to Run the file, this will clear the "Recent Project List" on your Visual Studio 2005 Startup Page. You can add entries for "Recent File List" and "Find and Replace List" in this same .reg file.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

SQL SERVER JOINs Inner Join, Outer Join, Cross Join, Right Outer Join, Left Outer Join

SQL SERVER JOINs

Introduction

In this article, we’ll see the basic concepts of SQL JOINs. In the later part of the article, we’ll focus on the advanced subject of Self-JOIN and some interesting observations on how inner JOIN can be simulated using left JOIN. The author has tried his best to amalgamate various topics in a single concept.
The JOIN keyword is used in a SQL statement to query data from two or more tables based on a relationship between certain columns in these tables.

Inner JOIN

A JOIN that displays only rows that have a match in both the JOINed tables is known as inner JOIN.  This is the default type of JOIN in the Query and View Designer.


Outer JOIN

A JOIN that includes rows even if they do not have related rows in the joined table is an Outer JOIN.  You can create three different outer JOINs to specify the unmatched rows to be included:
Left Outer JOIN: In Left Outer JOIN, all rows in the first-named table, i.e. “left” table, which appears leftmost in the JOIN clause, are included. Unmatched rows in the right table do not appear.

Right Outer JOIN: In Right Outer JOIN, all rows in the second-named table, i.e. “right” table, which appears rightmost in the JOIN clause, are included. Unmatched rows in the left table are not included.

Full Outer JOIN: In Full Outer JOIN, all rows in all the joined tables are included, whether they are matched or not.


Additional Notes related to JOIN

The following are three classic examples to demonstrate the cases where Outer JOIN is useful. You must have noticed several instances where developers write query as given below.
1.SELECT t1.*
2.FROM Table1 t1
3.WHERE t1.ID NOT IN (SELECT t2.ID FROM Table2 t2)
4.GO
The query demonstrated above can be easily replaced by Outer JOIN. Indeed, replacing it by Outer JOIN is the best practice. The query that generates the same result as above is shown here using Outer JOIN and WHERE clause in JOIN.
1./* LEFT JOIN - WHERE NULL */
2.SELECT t1.*,t2.*
3.FROM Table1 t1
4.LEFT JOIN Table2 t2 ON t1.ID = t2.ID
5.WHERE t2.ID IS NULL
The above example can also be created using Right Outer JOIN.

NOT Inner JOIN
Remember, the term Not Inner JOIN does not exist in database terminology. However, when full Outer JOIN is used along with WHERE condition, as explained in the above two examples, it will give you exclusive result to Inner JOIN. This JOIN will show all the results that were absent in Inner JOIN.


Cross JOIN

A cross JOIN devoid of a WHERE clause produces the Cartesian product of the tables involved in the JOIN. The size of a Cartesian product result set is the number of rows in the first table multiplied by the number of rows in the second table. One common example is when a company lists all its products in a pricing table to compare each product with others prices.


Self-JOIN

In this particular case, one table JOINs to itself with one or two aliases to stave off confusion. A self-JOIN can be of any type, as long as the joined tables are the same. A self-JOIN is unique in the sense that it involves a relationship with only one table. A common example is when a company has a hierarchal reporting structure whereby a member of staff reports to another member. Self-JOIN can either be an Outer JOIN or an Inner JOIN.
Self-JOIN is accomplished by using table name aliases to give each instance of the table a separate name. Joining a table to itself can be useful when you want to compare values in a column to other values of the same column. Self-JOIN is a JOIN in which records from a table are combined with other records from the same table when there are matching values in the joined fields. A self-JOIN can either be an inner JOIN or an outer JOIN. A table is joined to itself based upon a field or combination of fields that have duplicate data in different records. The data type of the inter-related columns must be of the same type or cast to the same type.
Now, think of a situation where all the data you require is contained within a single table, but data needed to extract is related to each other in the table itself. Examples of this type of data relate to employee information, where the table may have both an employee’s ID number for each record and also a field that displays the ID number of an employee’s supervisor or manager. To retrieve the data, it is mandatory for the tables to relate/JOIN to itself.
Another example that can be tried on SQL SERVER 2005 sample database AdventureWorks is to find products that are supplied by more than one vendor. Please refer to the sample database for table structure.
Note: Before we continue further let me make it very clear that INNER JOIN should be used where it cannot be used and simulating INNER JOIN using any other JOINs will degrade the performance. If there are scopes to convert any OUTER JOIN to INNER JOIN, it should be done with priority.
Run the following two scripts and observe the result-set. It will be identical.
01.USE AdventureWorks
02.GO
03./* Example of INNER JOIN */
04.SELECT p.ProductID, piy.ProductID
05.FROM Production.Product p
06.INNER JOIN Production.ProductInventory piy ON piy.ProductID = p.ProductID
07.GO
08./* Example of LEFT JOIN simulating INNER JOIN */
09.SELECT p.ProductID, piy.ProductID
10.FROM Production.Product p
11.LEFT JOIN Production.ProductInventory piy ON 1 = 1
12.WHERE piy.ProductID = p.ProductID
13.GO   
After gazing at the identical result the first question that cropped up in my mind was - what is behind the scene plan? Looking at the actual execution plan of the query it is quite evident that even if LEFT JOIN is used in SQL Server Query Optimizer, it converts to INNER JOIN since results are the same and performance is better.

Looking at the above scenario it makes me ponder how smart Query Optimizer Engine is and how it might be saving innumerable performance-related issues for sub-optimal queries.
Now let us try to grasp the cause of LEFT JOIN acting as INNER JOIN. When 1= 1 is used in ON clause it is always true and converts LEFT JOIN to CROSS JOIN. However, when WHERE condition’s effect is applied to the above CROSS JOIN it produces a result similar to INNER JOIN in our case. SQL Server Query Optimizer interprets this in advance and uses INNER JOIN right away.
I think a good question to ask in an interview would be -“How to write an OUTER JOIN that will give you the exact result, execution plan and performance as INNER JOIN?”
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