Sort – Is it Really a Blocking Iterator?
SQL Server has two types of execution plan iterators: Blocking and Non-Blocking.
A non-blocking iterator gets rows in and sends rows...
2014-10-30
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SQL Server has two types of execution plan iterators: Blocking and Non-Blocking.
A non-blocking iterator gets rows in and sends rows...
2014-10-30
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Were you ever in a situation where you ran a query, it ran for a long time and you didn’t...
2014-10-06 (first published: 2014-10-01)
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When you set up a multi-subnet cluster, whether it’s a Failover Cluster Instance or an Availability Group, you need to...
2014-09-29
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Last month, I had the pleasure of presenting two of my favorite sessions at the SQLBits conference in Telford, UK.
A few days...
2014-08-28
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About a year and a half ago, I approached Guy and asked him if he wanted to start a podcast...
2014-08-14
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If you’re reading this, you probably think, like me, that SQL Server is an awesome product. One of the great...
2014-08-11
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On Saturday, I had the pleasure to present my session, “Things You Can Find in the Plan Cache”, at SQLBits!
Thanks to...
2014-07-19
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About two months ago, after two and a half years, I left Microsoft.
Microsoft is an amazing place to work for. It’s...
2014-07-17
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About two months ago, after 2.5 years, I left Microsoft.
Microsoft is an amazing place to work for. It’s conformable, balanced,...
2014-07-17
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It’s T-SQL Tuesday time, and this month’s host, Boris Hristov (blog|twitter) chose the topic of interviews.
Over the time as a...
2014-05-13
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By Steve Jones
I love Chicago. I went to visit three times in 2023: a Redgate event,...
By Brian Kelley
I have found that non-functional requirements (NFRs) can be hard to define for a...
You can find the slidedeck for my Techorama session “Microsoft Fabric for Dummies” on...
Testing with AG on Linux with Cluster=NONE. it was all going ok and as...
Hi, I have two tables: one for headers with 9 fields and another for...
We're trying to understand how quick new versions of SQL server can be. Obviously...
Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers