Presenting with SSMS (Day 29)
If you are presenting with SSMS, then there are some extra steps that you need to take. These steps are...
2018-01-29
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Wayne Sheffield
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Saving SSMS Settings (Day 28)
Over the last several weeks, we have been making several changes to various settings in SSMS. Now that you have...
2018-01-28
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Comparing Query Plans (Day 27)
When you are performance tuning code, you will frequently examine the execution plans to see what is happening. As you...
2018-01-27
447 reads
A month of SSMS tips and tricks
Wayne’s Tips and Tricks for SSMS
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS ) is a program that many just launch daily (or only...
2018-01-26
693 reads
Working with Comments (Day 26)
We all know that we should liberally document our code with comments, so that others (and even yourself) will know...
2018-01-26
379 reads
Adaptive Query Processing – Batch Mode Adaptive Join
Let's explore how SQL Server 2017 automatically adapts between nested loop and hash join operators
2018-01-25
1,227 reads
Using the SSMS Web Browser (Day 25)
One of the things that I do with my code is to include reference links to what I was doing...
2018-01-25
340 reads
Using the SSMS Web Browser (Day 25)
One of the things that I do with my code is to include reference links to what I was doing...
2018-01-25
308 reads
Using Bookmarks to navigate code in SSMS (Day 24)
Bookmarks are used in SSMS to have SSMS remember selected line positions, and to quickly move between the bookmarks. All...
2018-01-24
352 reads
Using Bookmarks to navigate code in SSMS (Day 24)
Bookmarks are used in SSMS to have SSMS remember selected line positions, and to quickly move between the bookmarks. All...
2018-01-24
1,295 reads
Blogs
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Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
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Forums
SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...
Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data
This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...
ROLLUP to calculate Month total for all Categories
Good Afternoon, I have built a table with four columns: Period(Month), Category, Numerator, Denominator....
Question of the Day
Creating JSON I
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver') GOSee possible answers