Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
When examining...
2019-08-13
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Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. 5 Things You Need To Know When Reading SQL Server Execution Plans In the first part of this series I explained what an execution...
2019-08-19 (first published: 2019-08-06)
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Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
In the...
2019-08-06
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Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
In the...
2019-08-06
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Watch this week’s Statistics video on YouTube. Last week we looked at what execution plans are and how you can view them. This week I want to discuss what data...
2019-08-12 (first published: 2019-07-30)
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Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
Last week...
2019-07-30
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Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
Last week...
2019-07-30
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Watch this week’s episode on YouTube! I nearly always use execution plans as the starting point for SQL query performance troubleshooting. In this multi-part series, I plan to review...
2019-07-23
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Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
I nearly...
2019-07-23
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Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
I nearly...
2019-07-23
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I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
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I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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