Parsing T-SQL – The easy way
UPDATE 2012-09-12 : For my latest adventures with TSQL Parsers please see this post
Every once in a while, I hit an issue...
2012-03-13
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Dave Ballantyne
SQLMidlands & SQLLunch
Many thanks to all those that turned out to see my presentation on Thursday (16th of Feb) of “Cursors are...
2012-02-18
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[BUG] Inserts to tables with an index view can fail
Unfortunately some of the more troubling bugs can be very hard to reproduce succinctly. Here is one that has been...
2012-01-06
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Book review - SQL Server Secret Diary (Know the unknown secrets of SQL Server)
Like a lot of people within the SQL community, I can never read enough on the subject. Books, whitepapers, academic...
2011-12-31
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Extended Events - inaccurate_cardinality_estimate
Extended events have been a bit of a personal “Elephant in the room” for me. I know they are there...
2011-12-06
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MythBusting–“Table variables have no statistics”
Ok, as myths go, its a pretty weak one. In fact, it is true, this whitepaper explicitly states that. But...
2011-12-02
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Execution plan warnings–The final chapter
In my previous posts (here and here), I showed examples of some of the execution plan warnings that have been...
2011-11-29
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Blogging from 37,000ft
Im currently on my way to Sql Rally nordic and looking forward to a few days of full on SQL...
2011-11-06
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Execution plan warnings–All that glitters is not gold
In a previous post, I showed you the new execution plan warnings related to implicit and explicit warnings. Pretty much...
2011-11-06
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More Denali Execution Plan Warning Goodies
In my last blog, I showed how the execution plan in denali has been enhanced by 2 new warnings ,conversion...
2011-10-19
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SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
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Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
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ROLLUP to calculate Month total for all Categories
Good Afternoon, I have built a table with four columns: Period(Month), Category, Numerator, Denominator....
Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers