Table Variables, CTE and Temp Tables. Which one should I use?

There are several really good blogs that already exists that explain the differences between Table Variable, Common Table Expressions (CTE)...

Las Vegas UG This week

What a fun week we have tuned up for the folks in Las Vegas.  It is the first full week of January and there is this huge convention going...

Las Vegas UG This week

What a fun week we have tuned up for the folks in Las Vegas.  It is the first full week...

"OR" pattern causing indexing scans in parameter based queries

#Tl;dr article (time constraints prevented me from reworking significantly)
An article on SQL-Server-pro was forwarded over to me to research by...

Case of the Mondays... causing me to randomly redefine the Scope of Global temp tables

Today, I was reminded that global temp tables scope lasts for the session, and doesn't last beyond that. The difference...

Beware of Login Issues for Privileged Accounts

In a recent post, I described an attack against a privileged account using a simple SQL Injection technique of updating...

Effects of Max Mem on Plan Cache

Some effects on plan cache and max memory settings
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Happy New Year 2015

I know it’s late but I’ve been away, I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year.
I...

SQL Judo’s Monthly Challenge – January 2014 – Restore the Master

Every month SQL Judo (Russ Thomas) (b/t) challenges us to do his Monthly DBA Challenge. I’ve decided it would be...