Bert Wagner

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Temporary Staging Tables

Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. SQL Server Spool operators are a mixed bag. On one hand, they can negatively impact performance when writing data to disk in tempdb....

2019-05-07

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Blog Post

Temporary Staging Tables

Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server Spool operators are a mixed bag. On one hand, they can negatively impact performance when writing data to disk in tempdb. On...

2019-05-07

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Blog Post

Temporary Staging Tables

Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server Spool operators are a mixed bag. On one hand, they can negatively impact performance when writing data to disk in tempdb. On...

2019-05-07

8 reads

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IN vs UNION ALL

Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. When you need to filter query results on multiple values, you probably use an IN() statement or multiple predicates separated by ORs: or...

2019-05-13 (first published: )

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IN vs UNION ALL

Watch this week's video on YouTube
When you need to filter query results on multiple values, you probably use an IN() statement or multiple predicates separated by ORs:
WHERE Col1 IN...

2019-04-30

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Blog Post

IN vs UNION ALL

Watch this week's video on YouTube
When you need to filter query results on multiple values, you probably use an IN() statement or multiple predicates separated by ORs:
WHERE Col1 IN...

2019-04-30

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Correlated Subqueries vs Derived Tables

Correlated subqueries provide an intuitive syntax for writing queries that return related data. However, they often perform poorly due to needing to execute once for every value they join on....

2019-05-07 (first published: )

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As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?

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