Self Service BI and PowerPivot
Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari have written a book called Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning that I finally...
2011-10-17
1,232 reads
Garrett Hilton Edmondson
Event Driven SSIS with Synchronous Processing and Dynamic Subscriptions
I know the title of this post is a little cryptic and something that only a techie would like but...
2011-10-12
1,848 reads
Analysis Services 2008 R2 Performance Guide
You must read this if you work with SSAS:
Analysis Services 2008 R2 Performance Guide
Infact, I would recommend re-reading it a number...
2011-10-11
1,003 reads
Blogs
TSQL Tuesday #188 Growing community
I am responding late to a T-SQL Tuesday invite from John Sterrett. John’s call...
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...
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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