Developing with SQL Server: Three ways to get at data
Getting at data within a .NET application can be straightforward using built in controls or much more complex through connections,...
2011-04-04
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Meme Monday
Meme Monday story:
They’d never heard of indexes. Man, I was SUCH a rockstar!
-Jen McCown, MidnightDBA.com/Jen
2011-04-04
598 reads
SQL Saturday #71 Wrap-up
It’s over. It’s finally over. This year, unlike previous years, Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) was very good about delegating the work....
2011-04-04
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Varying Results with Subquery, ORDER BY, MAXDOP
In the speaker rooms of SQL events everywhere, there is wondrous blog material to be had, free for the picking...
2011-04-04
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2011-04-04
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SQL University–Recommendations for a Clustered Index
Welcome, SQL University Students to another extension class here at Miskatonic University, home to the Fighting Cephalopods (GO PODS!). Never...
2011-04-04
1,234 reads
Find tables which are most commonly used in Stored Procedures
When you start working on a new project, one of the important tasks as a database developer is to get...
2011-04-04
113 reads
The one bright spot in an otherwise bad day.
April 1st is a fun day for almost everyone. Playing tricks or just enjoying the tricks played by others. For...
2011-04-04
1,257 reads
Meme Monday - what the heck? - OK I'll bite!
Thomas "Tommy Boy SQLRockStar" LaRock proposed a Meme Monday and challenged us to write a SQL Server related story in eleven words...
2011-04-04
899 reads
Powershell Day 4
Day 4 Programming in Powershell Part 2 Now we got some basic information about shell programming operators and other stuff....
2011-04-04
448 reads
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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