Sql Saturday #83
Frikkie Bosch opened the day with a short keynote giving an overview of Denali, talking mostly from a marketing point...
2011-05-09
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Gail Shaw
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Indexing for ORs
All of the indexing strategy posts I’ve written in the past have been concerned with predicates combined with ANDs. That’s...
2011-05-03
1,024 reads
Meme Monday: I Got 99 SQL Problems And the Disk Ain’t One
From Tom LaRock’s latest idea…
For a change I’m not going to mention performance (well, not more than once anyway)...
2011-05-02
1,319 reads
To TOP or not to TOP an EXISTS
Earlier this year I had a look at a query pattern that I often see on forums and in production...
2011-04-05
5,891 reads
Statistics, row estimations and the ascending date column
SQL’s auto-updating statistics go a fair way to making SQL Server a self-tuning database engine and in many cases they...
2011-03-28
1,643 reads
Statistics, row estimations and the ascending date column
SQL’s auto-updating statistics go a fair way to making SQL Server a self-tuning database engine and in many cases they...
2011-03-22
2,079 reads
Q & A from 24 Hours of PASS session
Earlier this week I took part in the 24 Hours of PASS live webcast event. There were far more questions...
2011-03-18
709 reads
Full backups, the log chain and the COPY_ONLY option.
There have been a large number of posts made regarding the interaction between full database backups and the log chain...
2011-03-08
1,347 reads
And now for a completely inappropriate use of SQL Server
A while back I wrote up a short introductory overview of Genetic Algorithms. Just for the shear, absolute fun of...
2011-02-28
2,838 reads
And now for a completely inappropriate use of SQL Server
A while back I wrote up a short introductory overview of Genetic Algorithms. Just for the shear, absolute fun of...
2011-02-22
1,582 reads
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