Technological Movements and the Herd Mentality....

It's amazing to me how the herd mentality works in Technology (and many other things) sometimes. I get the idea...

Inline TVFs can't use FORCE ORDER hint but Multi-Statement TVFs can...?

Doing some work with converting Multi-Statement TVFs to Inline TVFs and I'm finding that the Inline TVFs cannot use the...

More info on nested views causing performance problems

 As if I needed any further convincing that nested views were bad....
The other day I had to write a particularly...

Strange issue while using IDENTITY values in INSTEAD OF triggers

Found an interesting issue last week....it goes like this:

If you are using INSTEAD OF triggers on views (in SQL 2005)...

Range locks do not only occur in Serializable transactions....

According to BOL, "Key-range locks protect a range of rows implicitly included in a record set being read by a...

Professional Licensing for Software Professionals?

Over the past few days I have been thinking that the Software Industry is in drastic need of a Professional...

Option missing in NTILE function?

Just saw something interesting....we have a requirement to divide a result set into a certain number of groups that have...

Nested views causing query performance woes....

Just ran into an interesting issue AGAIN. It seems that when you nest views in a query you are opening...

Access Analysis Services via T-SQL?

It occurred to me the other day that it might be interesting to manage aggregates in an SQL Server database...

BiTemporal Tables, anyone?

I'm doing some interesting research on using BiTemporal tables and I was wondering if anyone out there has any real-world...