Pre-Compiled Stored Procedures: Fact or Myth
There’s a very common belief among DBA’s: Stored procedures are pre-compiled. I had someone tell me all about it just...
2009-09-30
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Grant Fritchey
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Vote for Mr. LaRock
It is rapidly coming up on election time at the Professional Association of SQL Server users (PASS). Once more, a person...
2009-09-29
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Recap of Cape Cod .NET User’s Group
I presented last night at the Cape Cod .NET User’s Group. What a great bunch of people. About 20 people...
2009-09-24
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PASS Virtual Chapters
If you’re not a member of the Professional Association of SQL Server users, PASS, why not? No, I’m sorry. I...
2009-09-23
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Presentation Skills from Brent Ozar
If you present at any level, read this. If you’re thinking about presenting, read this. If you’d like to start...
2009-09-23
1,072 reads
Cape Cod .NET Users Group
Tomorrow night, Wednesday, September 23, I’m going to present on “Best Practices for Working with SQL Server Execution Plans” for the...
2009-09-22
836 reads
Gila Monster on Estimated vs. Actual Row Counts
I don’t generally do lots of blog aggregation and cross post linking & stuff. It’s just not something I’m that into....
2009-09-22
1,279 reads
Identifying Frequently Running Queries
It’s not enough to look at the longest running query. What if you have two queries, one runs for 5...
2009-09-21
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More Free Training
Quest Connect 2009, taking place in October 21 for 24 hours, looks like it’s going to have 64 different sessions, live...
2009-09-15
692 reads
No Join Predicate
You could be looking at an execution plan on a query and see this message: Warning, No Join Predicate. With...
2009-09-15
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Blogs
A Conversation That Refused to End: What We Learned from Our First Event in Zurich
On May 8, 2025, we hosted our first official event in Switzerland at Prime...
A DevOps Workshop Tomorrow in Atlanta
By Steve Jones
Tomorrow is the Redgate DevOps Day in Atlanta. You can still sign up, so...
Stop Wasting Time Rebuilding Indexes Every Night
By Kevin3NF
Too many IT teams run index rebuild jobs on autopilot. Every night. Every index....
Forums
Question on SQL Query with NOT condition
I have a record, in those the three columns where firstname / last name...
Execution Plan Operators
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Merge spans with Dates Logic
--for a given member if the startdate and endate is continous we need to...
Question of the Day
Execution Plan Operators
When looking at an execution plan in SSMS, what types of operators are shown?
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