Count(*) or Count(1) ?
Every so often on the on-line forums, the question of : Which is better Count(*) or Count(1) ? will occur. So can...
2010-07-27
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Every so often on the on-line forums, the question of : Which is better Count(*) or Count(1) ? will occur. So can...
2010-07-27
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For those that may of missed it, voting for SQLBits sessions is now open. Make your voice heard and get...
2010-07-20
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I am somewhat uncomfortable blogging this, as I feel that it falls into “Polish a turd” category. Having said that,...
2010-07-02
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One of my back burner projects is to setup a local user group.
I'm delighted to now say that this is...
2010-06-28
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It’s as simple as that. If you don’t specify ORDER BY, then the order of your result set is not...
2010-06-26
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Ever been curious about the schema of , say an SSRS rdl file ? How about the execution plan ?
Not only should...
2010-06-15
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I have received a number of requests for an explanation of my winning query of TSQL Challenge 19. This involved...
2010-05-27
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One of my personal pet issues is with inappropriate use of the NOLOCK hint (and read uncommitted) . Don't get me...
2010-04-23
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Cross apply (and outer apply) are a very welcome addition to the TSQL language. However, today after a few hours...
2010-03-26
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It is widely know that data modifications on table variables do not support parallelism, Peter Larsson has a good example...
2010-03-04
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Let’s have devs look at their own query performance. Yes, please, sign me up...
This June, LearnSQL is throwing down the gauntlet with a fresh SQL Practice challenge....
By Steve Jones
I delivered a talk today on database deployment best practices at the Denver Dev...
Hi I am brand new to Data Factory I am getting the following error...
I want to set the execution timeout in SSMS Connection properties on the 'Connect...
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