Implicit Conversions warning
After adding an index, ensuring that an index is actually used is probably the biggest win you will get in...
2011-10-17
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Dave Ballantyne
Rows or Range, What’s the difference ?
With the release of Denali CTP3 came an extension of the over clause to allow for a sliding window of...
2011-09-22
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Unleashing my inner Viking, SQLBits and more…
In case you didn't know SQLBits 9 ,”Query across the Mersey”, is taking place in Liverpool from September 21st to...
2011-08-31
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Rolling your own index lookups
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been training developers in what they really need to know about SQL Server to...
2011-08-01
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Denali–IIF and CHOOSE
In Denali CTP3, we have a new of new functions to play with. For this post, im going to focus...
2011-07-19
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Optimizing a cursor based routine – Part 2
In the second part of his optimization series, Dave Ballantyne shows us how to add conditional logic to set based, more efficient T-SQL code.
2011-06-28
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Optimizing a cursor based routine – Part 1
Learn how you can remove a cursor and optimize a routine that loops through a series of data and performs various calculations in this short article from Dave Ballantyne.
2011-06-27
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Non use of persisted data – Part deux
In my last blog I showed how persisted data may not be used if you have used the base data...
2011-06-20
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Itzik Ben-Gan is in town
Not that you would know it from the page below, but Itzik Ben-Gan is back in London to do a...
2011-06-17
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Non use of persisted data
Working at a client site, that in itself is good to say, I ran into a set of circumstances that...
2011-06-13
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