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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T-SQL Tuesday #191: Invitation–Your Favorite String Parsing

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Fabric as a Data Mesh Enabler: Rethinking Enterprise Data Distribution

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Truncate Table Pitfalls

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