Spider-Man Homecoming Twitter Sentiment
Hello Dear Reader! This past Thursday night I took my son Zachary to see Spider-Man Homecoming, it was an amazing movie with a fantastic cast. Both of us are...
2017-07-10
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SQLBalls
Microsoft: 1 Year in, how's it going?
Hello Dear Reader, one year ago today it was leap year, February 29th 2016. So I'm a year older, the...
2017-03-10 (first published: 2017-03-01)
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Microsoft: 1 Year in, how's it going?
Hello Dear Reader, one year ago today it was leap year, February 29th 2016. So I'm a year older, the big four zero.... 40. A little wiser? Maybe. Despite...
2017-03-01
How Do I Add an R Package to SQL Server from In-Database R?
Hello Dear Reader! I'm working on some really fun stuff with in-database R using SQL Server 2016.
I needed to...
2017-02-28
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How Do I Add an R Package to SQL Server from In-Database R?
Hello Dear Reader! I'm working on some really fun stuff with in-database R using SQL Server 2016. I needed to add a couple packages to my R engine so...
2017-02-28
4 reads
The High Availability Conversation Part 1: Introduction
Hello Dear Reader! Twitter is a fantastic tool if you use SQL Server. It is a great way to network,...
2017-02-07 (first published: 2017-02-03)
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The High Availability Conversation Part 1: Introduction
Hello Dear Reader! Twitter is a fantastic tool if you use SQL Server. It is a great way to network, find presentations, interact with experts, and #SQLHelp offers some...
2017-02-03
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Optimize For Unknown
Hello Dear Reader! It's been a while. I was working with a friend and we came across an interesting problem....
2016-12-21 (first published: 2016-12-05)
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Optimize For Unknown
Hello Dear Reader! It's been a while. I was working with a friend and we came across an interesting problem. They had a large amount of skewness/data skew. This...
2016-12-05
2 reads
SQL Azure, Hekaton, and Bob Dorr is Awesome
Hello Dear Reader! I had recently written a blog for the PFE blog, "How Many Tables Can I Have In...
2016-08-29
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Blogs
TSQL Tuesday #188 Growing community
I am responding late to a T-SQL Tuesday invite from John Sterrett. John’s call...
Time to Revive our YouTube Channel
It’s been forgotten about and neglected for few years but I’ve decided to dust...
Microsoft MVP 2025: Continuing the Data Platform Journey
I am honored to announce that I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP...
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Question of the Day
Query Plan Regressions --
For the Question of the day, I am going to go deep, but try to be more clear, as I feel like I didn't give enough info last time, leading folks to guess the wrong answer... :) For today's question: You’re troubleshooting a performance issue on a critical stored procedure. You notice that a previously efficient query now performs a full table scan instead of an index seek. Upon investigating, you find that an NVARCHAR parameter is being compared to a VARCHAR column in the WHERE clause. What is the most likely cause of the query plan regression?
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