Execution Plan Stability
I’ve talked before about one of the primary things that the Query Optimizer team at Microsoft tries to avoid, regressions....
2011-03-07
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Upcoming Engagements
I haven’t been blogging lately because I’ve been busy tweaking my resume, working on PASS SQLRally, serving at church, and spending...
2011-03-07
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XQuery for the Non-Expert – Aggregates
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
In the...
2011-03-07
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Take-aways from the 2011 Microsoft MVP Summit
Every year, Microsoft brings a couple thousand specialists from every corner of the globe together for a few days to...
2011-03-07
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In summary - SQLskills internals.
Well, I attended a full week of SQL internals from Paul Randal [Blog | Twitter] and Kimberley L. Tripp [Blog | Twitter]...
2011-03-06
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SQL Server Hardware Selection Presentation from Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta
I just wanted to post a link to my presentation on Hardware 201: Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP...
2011-03-05
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Leading Wildcards Aren’t A Good Default
SQL Server has LIKE, which lets us do various pattern matches, but most commonly we use the percent side as...
2011-03-05
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Women in Technology PPT Template
Well hey-howdy-hey (as we don’t say in Texas), it’s Women’s History Month! And by all accounts, it’s going to be a...
2011-03-04
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Oh Yes It’s Ladies Ni…errr…Month
Making WIT awesome since 1993
It’s March and this month sees a lot of celebration, amongst the parties are Mardi Gras...
2011-03-04
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Having Cake and Eating it Two
In early January, I wrote a little tribute to my wife for the awesome job she does when making cakes. There was a lot of good feedback from that....
2011-03-04
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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