T-SQL Tuesday #109 – Mentors and Mentees

G’day again,
So, it’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, the blog party 
started by Adam Machanic (
This time we're talking about people...

Visualizing Nested Loops Joins And Understanding Their Implications

This post is the first in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 2 - merge joins, and part 3 - hash match joins).

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Visualizing Nested Loops Joins And Understanding Their Implications

This post is the first in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 2 – merge...

Visualizing Nested Loops Joins And Understanding Their Implications

This post is the first in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 2 - merge joins, and part 3 - hash match joins).

Watch...

Data Warehousing Tip #1 – Store fact data at the leaf level

My first data warehousing tip is to store fact data at the leaf level. If you aggregate your fact data...

Ghosts in your Database

Yes Virginia, there are ghosts in your database.  More specifically, there are ghosts in your SQL Server database.  They are...

How To Restore Database in SQL Server 2014 From .bak - Step By Step

Due to threats of data loss, human errors, scam attempts, hardware damage, or natural disasters, it is imperative for IT administrators to ensure the security of data. In order...

How To Restore Database in SQL Server 2014 From .bak - Step By Step

Due to threats of data loss, human errors, scam attempts, hardware damage, or natural disasters, it is imperative for IT...

Moving SSISDB is not as easy as it sounds

We’ve been doing a lot of upgrading recently and at one point had to move an instance from one 2016...

My backup script (where, how, how big, etc.)

A while back I wrote about how to find where your backups are. And I’ve also written about I use...