Hubbard Family Recovery–A Friend
Today’s post will not be your regular tech or leadership blog from me today. The Hubbard family suffered a tragic loss on January 12th, 2022. They lost their home,...
2022-01-14
13 reads
Chris Yates
The Power of User Groups
Fascination has always been with me when thinking of developing local talent. It has helped me immensely in my career both as an attendee, presenter, chapter leader, and more....
2021-08-23
82 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #141 Work/Life Balance
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by TJay Belt (@tjaybelt). I find this month’s topic, balancing work and life, intriguing, and after a hiatus of non-blogging, I’m happy that...
2021-08-10
20 reads
Release Your Inner Synapse
I don’t know about you, but as Microsoft has produced the Azure Synapse platform, I see a plethora of needs that could be fulfilled by it. Being in a...
2021-02-12 (first published: 2021-02-08)
329 reads
Friend of RedGate 2021
This past month RedGate graciously allowed me to be a part of their Friend of RedGate program. It’s been a great seven year run with this program and I...
2021-02-11
13 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #135: The outstanding tools of the trade that make your job awesome
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on a T-SQL Tuesday topic and glad to see the topic being discussed by Mike Bronowski (blog) on tools. Throughout my career,...
2021-02-09
150 reads
Friend of Redgate 2020
Last week I was excited to receive an email from Redgate notifying me that I have been renewed for another year as a Friend of Redgate. Our shop has...
2020-02-18
17 reads
Why I’m Running For The PASS Board – Again
Hello, it’s amazing to me how fast the past couple of years have gone by as I’ve served on the PASS Board. It has been a journey that has...
2019-11-02
13 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #119 – Changing Your Mind
This month Alex Yates (B|T) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday which is a monthly blog party started by Adam Machanic (B|T) and co-ordinated by Steve Jones (B|T) The challenge that...
2019-10-08
75 reads
Friend of Redgate 2019
The crew at Redgate has deemed me worthy enough to be in their Friend of Redgate program for another year....
2019-02-12
99 reads
Blogs
Time to Revive our YouTube Channel
It’s been forgotten about and neglected for few years but I’ve decided to dust...
Microsoft MVP 2025: Continuing the Data Platform Journey
I am honored to announce that I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP...
What is KTLO? Keep The Lights On vs Project Work in Agile
By Rohit Garg
🔍 Demystifying KTLO: A Deep Dive into Keep The Lights On Work in IT...
Forums
How a Legacy Logic Choked SQL Server in a 30-Year-Old Factory
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Navigating Multi Platform Realities in My Database Life
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Import/Export SSMS Settings issue
I have tried a number of times to export and then import my SSMS...
Question of the Day
Query Plan Regressions --
For the Question of the day, I am going to go deep, but try to be more clear, as I feel like I didn't give enough info last time, leading folks to guess the wrong answer... :) For today's question: You’re troubleshooting a performance issue on a critical stored procedure. You notice that a previously efficient query now performs a full table scan instead of an index seek. Upon investigating, you find that an NVARCHAR parameter is being compared to a VARCHAR column in the WHERE clause. What is the most likely cause of the query plan regression?
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