SQL University: Advanced Indexing – Indexing Strategies
Right, I know it’s Friday and everyone’s tired and looking forward to the weekend, but I do need to finish...
2011-11-11
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SQL In The Wild
SQL University: Advanced Indexing – Filtered Indexes
Welcome back to day 2 of Advanced Indexing. Today we’re going to look at a feature that was added in...
2011-11-09
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SQL University: Advanced indexing – Sorting and Grouping
Good day everyone and welcome to another week of SQL University. I know we’re getting close to the end of...
2011-11-07
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24 Hours of PASS Questions
I finally found the time to work through the questions from the 24 Hours of PASS session that I did....
2011-09-27
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Compiles and recompiles
I want to spend some time over the next few months looking at query compilation and the plan cache, and...
2011-08-16
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All about Execution Plans
Coming to the PASS Summit in October this year? Excellent!
I say excellent, because Grant (blog|twitter) and I are presenting a...
2011-08-09
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SQLSkills Immersion training in London
Just short of the winter solstice, I bailed out of a freezing cold Johannesburg for warmer climates; well, actually for...
2011-07-22
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Converting OR to Union
When I looked at indexing for queries containing predicates combined with OR, it became clear that the are some restrictive...
2011-07-05
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Are all updates split into delete-insert?
This should be another quick one.
Earlier I saw a forum post where someone asserted that SQL always executes an update...
2011-06-21
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T-SQL Tuesday: Disasters don’t just come in huge
So we’re supposed to talk about disasters we’ve had or discuss disaster recovery technologies. I’m going to take a slightly...
2011-06-14
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Blogs
Query Intelligence in SQL Server 2025: What Developers Need to Know
By Chris Yates
When Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025, I was curious about what would truly change...
Finding and Killing Blockers with Redgate AI Tech
By Steve Jones
Redgate has a research arm, called the Foundry, that has been experimenting with AIs...
Back at Small Data SF in 2025
By Steve Jones
Today I’m in San Francisco at Small Data SF 2025. I went to the...
Forums
Large posts full of code not allowed anymore?
Several times now, I've seen a post asking for a solution. I've replied, and...
Data > Hype
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Create and Read the Analysis Services Flight Recorder
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Question of the Day
Slipstream parameters
What parameters are needed to enable a slipstream installation for setup.exe (SQL Server setup)?
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