Matthew McGiffen

I started my career in IT as a developer with Visual Basic, C# and ASP working with SQL Server backends. For the last ten years though I’ve focused on the SQL Server side of things. Currently I’m working for a leading software vendor for the financial industry as a DBA, doing a mixture of development and data architecture. If I have a speciality it is in making things run faster.

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How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC

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Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger

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The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”

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After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...

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Detecting Deadlocks

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Introducing the Relational Embedding Retrieval Pattern: Storing and Querying Vector Embeddings in SQL Server

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Detecting Deadlocks

By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?

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