Left outer join vs NOT EXISTS
And to wrap up the miniseries on IN, EXISTS and JOIN, a look at NOT EXISTS and LEFT OUTER JOIN...
2010-03-25
5,209 reads
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Left outer join vs NOT EXISTS
And to wrap up the miniseries on IN, EXISTS and JOIN, a look at NOT EXISTS and LEFT OUTER JOIN...
2010-03-23
12,617 reads
The Root of all Evil
Or “Shot gun query tuning”
There have been a fair few forums questions in recent months asking for help in removing...
2010-03-11
440 reads
NOT EXISTS vs NOT IN
Continuing with the mini-series on query operators, I want to have a look at NOT EXISTS and NOT IN.
Just one...
2010-02-18
56,060 reads
Getting here from there
Another month, another blog chain, this time started by Paul Randal. I got tagged by both Grant and Steve, on...
2010-01-21
395 reads
SQL Pass session evaluations
I finally got the last of my PASS Summit session evals and so, like someotherpeople, I thought I’d make them...
2010-01-13
570 reads
IN vs INNER JOIN
Often in forum threads discussing query performance I’ll see people recommending replacing an INNER JOIN with an IN (or recommending...
2010-01-12
21,568 reads
Are trivial plans cached?
It is sometimes said that trivial execution plans are not cached and queries that have such plans are compiled on...
2009-12-08
1,232 reads
The most optimal join type
What’s the best join type for a query? Should we aspire to seeing nested loop joins in all our queries?...
2009-11-24
980 reads
TechEd Online Interview
Back in August at TechEd Africa I did a TechEd Online interview with Frikkie Bosch. Frikkie’s the marketing manager for...
2009-09-30
1,472 reads
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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