Monday Morning SQL Break – July 11, 2016
It’s Monday and time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. I spent the weekend with family...
2016-07-11
864 reads
StrateSQL
SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 5
It’s time for week 5 of giving out some copies of Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server. So far, I’ve sent...
2016-07-05
669 reads
SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 5
It’s time for week 5 of giving out some copies of Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server. So far, I’ve sent out four copies of the book based on comments from...
2016-07-05
4 reads
Tuesday Morning SQL Break – July 5, 2016
Yesterday was a holiday here in the United States, so I’m starting the week on Tuesday. For those in the...
2016-07-05
797 reads
Monday Morning SQL Break – June 27, 2016
The best way to make the most of the week is to set your goals. One of the things I...
2016-06-27
883 reads
SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 4 (the late edition)
So… it’s Saturday night and I missed getting this out on Friday morning…
But, in past three weeks’ posts (1, 2, 3),...
2016-06-26
719 reads
SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 4 (the late edition)
So… it’s Saturday night and I missed getting this out on Friday morning… But, in past three weeks’ posts (1, 2, 3), I talked about how I’ve got a few copies...
2016-06-26
3 reads
Monday Morning SQL Break – June 20, 2016
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me...
2016-06-20
867 reads
SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 3
In past two weeks’ posts (1, 2) I talked about how I’ve got a few copies of Expert Performance Indexing for...
2016-06-17
716 reads
SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 3
In past two weeks’ posts (1, 2) I talked about how I’ve got a few copies of Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server to give away. This is a book that I...
2016-06-17
3 reads
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;