Joe becomes intrigued by the way that experts make errors in any area of technology, and suggests that the problem is more that of mindsets than lack of knowledge. He illustrates the point with SQL Development by means of the "Britney Spears, Automobiles and Squids" table, and the tangled Stored procedure, and shows ways of getting rid of both procedural and non-procedural code by adopting a different programming mindset.
2009-09-03
5,983 reads
The new HierarchyID datatype in SQL Server 2008 has captured my interest lately. I’ve been working on a presentation that...
2009-09-03
1,698 reads
Previous T-SQL best practices articles have discussed different coding styles that led to slow and fast query executions, and ways to minimize cached plans. This article will be an extension on those concepts, focusing on how the SQL Server optimizer tries to parameterize a query if it can, as well as how you can build your own parameterized query.
2009-09-03
5,866 reads
What do you do as a DBA if you get asked to cook the books? With the economy doing poorly, some executives will be tempted to mis-report earnings and they might ask the technical people to help. Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2009-09-03
668 reads
What do you do as a DBA if you get asked to cook the books? With the economy doing poorly, some executives will be tempted to mis-report earnings and they might ask the technical people to help. Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2009-09-03
335 reads
What do you do as a DBA if you get asked to cook the books? With the economy doing poorly, some executives will be tempted to mis-report earnings and they might ask the technical people to help. Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2009-09-03
616 reads
Compression is one of the major features introduced in SQL Server 2008, and one that can significantly reduce disk storage. ...
2009-09-02
2,756 reads
Rodney Landrum describes in his own unique style how he, as a working DBA, goes about troubleshooting problem queries, and investigating various types of locking and blocking problems. In the process, he passes on valuable tips learned from practical, and sometimes stressful, experience.
2009-09-02
6,526 reads
This article will cover how we can make use of the WMI Data Reader Task to retrieve information about remote machines. Our example will focus Disk space usage of remote machines.
2009-09-01
7,849 reads
I attended a presentation recently from Steven Wright of SQL Sentry on Analysis Services (SSAS) memory management and it was...
2009-09-01
2,412 reads
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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