6 Techniques For Troubleshooting Your Code
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #105 prompt by Wayne Sheffield. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2018-08-30 (first published: 2018-08-14)
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6 Techniques For Troubleshooting Your Code
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #105 prompt by Wayne Sheffield. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
2018-08-14
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6 Techniques For Troubleshooting Your Code
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #105 prompt by Wayne Sheffield. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
2018-08-14
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Displaying Long Values in SSMS
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I write a lot of dynamic SQL and frequently encounter variables that...
2018-08-07
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Displaying Long Values in SSMS
Watch this week's video on YouTube
I write a lot of dynamic SQL and frequently encounter variables that contain many characters:
DECLARE @LongValue NVARCHAR(MAX) = CAST('' AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) +
N'SELECT
...
2018-08-07
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Displaying Long Values in SSMS
Watch this week's video on YouTube
I write a lot of dynamic SQL and frequently encounter variables that contain many characters:
DECLARE @LongValue NVARCHAR(MAX) = CAST('' AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) +
N'SELECT
...
2018-08-07
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Should You Use Index Hints?
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One of the things that the SQL Server query optimizer does is determine how to...
2018-08-16 (first published: 2018-07-31)
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Should You Use Index Hints?
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One of the things that the SQL Server query optimizer does is determine how to retrieve the data requested by your query.
Usually it does...
2018-07-31
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Should You Use Index Hints?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
One of the things that the SQL Server query optimizer does is determine how to retrieve the data requested by your query.
Usually it does...
2018-07-31
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Pinal Dave Helps Me Fix My Performance Tuning Problems
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This week I was fortunate enough to film a video in...
2018-07-24
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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