Cardinality: Not Just For The Birds
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When building indexes for your queries, the order of your index key columns matters. SQL Server can make the most effective use of an...
2019-01-29
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Cardinality: Not Just For The Birds
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When building indexes for your queries, the order of your index key columns matters. SQL...
2019-01-29
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SQL FAILS with Andy Mallon, Erin Stellato, and Mr. Anonymous!
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While most of us strive to make as few mistakes as possible when it comes...
2019-01-25 (first published: 2019-01-15)
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Optimizing for Ad Hoc Workloads
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The execution plan cache is a great feature: after SQL Server goes through the effort of generating a query plan, SQL Servers saves that...
2019-01-22
SQL FAILS with Andy Mallon, Erin Stellato, and Mr. Anonymous!
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While most of us strive to make as few mistakes as possible when it comes to our servers and data, accidents do occasionally happen.
Sometimes...
2019-01-15
Visualizing Hash Match Join Internals And Understanding Their Implications
This post is part 3 in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 1 – nested...
2019-01-10 (first published: 2019-01-02)
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T-SQL Documentation Generator
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #110 prompt by Garry Bargsley. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2019-01-08
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T-SQL Documentation Generator
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #110 prompt by Garry Bargsley. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
2019-01-08
Visualizing Hash Match Join Internals And Understanding Their Implications
This post is part 3 in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 1 - nested loops joins, and part 2 - merge joins).
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2019-01-02
2018 Community Influencer of the Year
A few days ago I was surprised to learn from Aaron Bertrand of SentryOne that he was selecting me as Community Influencer of the Year for 2018.
Aaron states that...
2019-01-01
Blogs
2020 Advent of Code–Day 1
By Steve Jones
This series looks at the Advent of Code challenges. I started the Advent of...
Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs—Setting Up (Part 2)
By Kevin3NF
Welcome back to my Server Review Essentials for Accidental and Junior DBAs series. Last...
One Chart at A Time Video Series
Jon Schwabish over at PolicyViz has created great initiative called the One Chart at...
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