What is a distributed transaction?
A while back I did a post defining a transaction. Basically, a transaction is a unit of work. The example ... Continue reading
2019-06-13 (first published: 2019-05-28)
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12 Ways To Rewrite SQL Queries for Better Performance
Watch this week’s video on YouTube. Thanks to you, we just crossed the 2k subscriber mark! Over the past several week’s I’ve been exploring ways to rewrite queries to improve...
2019-06-13 (first published: 2019-05-28)
3,778 reads
12 Ways To Rewrite SQL Queries for Better Performance
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Over the past several week's I've been exploring ways to rewrite queries to improve execution performance.
I learned a lot of these techniques over time from...
2019-05-28
43 reads
12 Ways To Rewrite SQL Queries for Better Performance
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Over the past several week's I've been exploring ways to rewrite queries to improve execution performance.
I learned a lot of these techniques over time from...
2019-05-28
14 reads
Speaking at Events
G’day, I recently got the opportunity to speak at the “PASS Marathon, The New World of Data Privacy”. I had not spoken at a virtually event for quite some...
2019-05-28
19 reads
Recover Database using Stellar Repair for MS SQL
One of my friends client has got an issue with his SQL Server. A weekly database integrity check has reported a corruption for one of his databases. The corruption...
2019-05-28
35 reads
A Lost Day
I’m writing this in advance, as I usually recommend for all bloggers, because this is a lost day for me. I’m not going to experience May 27th, 2019 on...
2019-05-27
42 reads
SQL Server Development Best Practices – Webinar
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com about SQL Server Development Best Practices. Aka writing T-SQL and stuff ?? The webcast is the 13th of...
2019-05-27
45 reads
Save 50% on my SQL Server Performance Tuning & Troubleshooting Workshop
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2019-05-27
30 reads
Weekly reading #15
SQLDay 2019 is gone. The Data Community.PL has now a new goal – it is the SQL Saturday #914 in Torun. The speakers will be announced after July 30th....
2019-05-27
33 reads
Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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Checking the Error Log III
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