Matan Yungman is a Technical Evangelist and senior consultant at Madeira SQL Server Services. His job is to get the word out about SQL Server. He speaks, lectures, writes, teaches and consults about SQL Server, focusing mainly on performance tuning, database development, high availability and database design. He’s passionate about SQL Server, technology and the SQL Server community.

Webcast – Small Changes Can Make a World of Difference

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Matan Yungman

This Thursday, 10AM GMT, I will be hosted by Dell’s Richard Douglas (blog|twitter) for a webcast. I will present my...

2014-03-18

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A Community Challenge

by Matan_Yungman

Matan Yungman

Earlier this week, I delivered a presentation called “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” to my local user group.
Among other...

2014-03-05

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The Strange Story About the MERGE that Killed the Cluster

by Matan_Yungman

Matan Yungman

I don’t like the MERGE statement. The syntax is weird, it’s tricky in terms of locks, and it has a...

2014-02-20

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Know When it’s Good Enough

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Matan Yungman

Here’s a newsflash: You may not thing so, but you are expensive. There’s no point in endless performance tuning. I love...

2014-01-28

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Things I Learned in 2013

by Matan_Yungman

Matan Yungman

It’s 2014 now. I hope you had fun in new year’s eve.
2013 was an amazing and intense year. To recap...

2014-01-02

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T-SQL Tuesday #49: Using CXPacket Waits to Detect Query Bottlenecks

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Matan Yungman

This post is for T-SQL Tuesday #49, the monthly blog party of the community.
This tradition was started by Adam...

2013-12-10

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Interviews with Brent Ozar, Adam Machanic and Denny Cherry for SQL Server Radio

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Matan Yungman

While in SQLRally Amsterdam, I had the honor to interview Brent Ozar (blog | twitter), Adam Machanic (blog | twitter) and Denny Cherry (blog | twitter)...

2013-12-09

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