How is Fill Factor Impacting My Indexes?

The theme for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday is indexes so it seemed like the perfect excuse to blog about a...

One wide index or multiple narrow indexes?

Or “If one index is good, surely many indexes (indexes? indices? indi?) will be better”
This is a question that comes...

Brief Intro to Indexes and INCLUDE – TSQL Tuesday #10!

Content rating: Beginner  
This blog was originally posted on December 17, 2009. I’ve pulled it out of the closet for...

Some Days....

Some days I think I go full retard.

PASS Election Ends Tomorrow (Sep 15, 2010)

If you haven’t voted I hope you will. Ballots were sent out via email to those members eligible to vote....

Failing Fast

I’ll have a longer post next week about my own risk strategy, but I wanted to write this first, both...

September OPASS Meeting Tonight!

Live Meeting: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=NQ65ZG&role=attend

Mini-Session

Topic: Using PIVOT – Going from Static to Dynamic

Sometimes data normalization results in a data structure that is not convenient for...

T-SQL Tuesday #10 - Indexes

It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, the brainchild of Adam Machanic (Blog|Twitter), and this month’s topic is Indexes. A thanks...

Task Manager - Don't Believe the System Idle Process Percentage

This morning my laptop went to a crawl. I looked, and sure enough, there was an AntiVirus scan running. Argh!...

The SQLSaturday Squirrel

A bit of mid week humor. Recently I met up with Jack Corbett to review our room options for SQLSaturday...