Brief Intro to Indexes and INCLUDE – TSQL Tuesday #10!

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This blog was originally posted on December 17, 2009. I’ve pulled it out of the closet for...

Some Days....

Some days I think I go full retard.

PASS Election Ends Tomorrow (Sep 15, 2010)

If you haven’t voted I hope you will. Ballots were sent out via email to those members eligible to vote....

Failing Fast

I’ll have a longer post next week about my own risk strategy, but I wanted to write this first, both...

September OPASS Meeting Tonight!

Live Meeting: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=NQ65ZG&role=attend

Mini-Session

Topic: Using PIVOT – Going from Static to Dynamic

Sometimes data normalization results in a data structure that is not convenient for...

T-SQL Tuesday #10 - Indexes

It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, the brainchild of Adam Machanic (Blog|Twitter), and this month’s topic is Indexes. A thanks...

Task Manager - Don't Believe the System Idle Process Percentage

This morning my laptop went to a crawl. I looked, and sure enough, there was an AntiVirus scan running. Argh!...

The SQLSaturday Squirrel

A bit of mid week humor. Recently I met up with Jack Corbett to review our room options for SQLSaturday...

Common SQL Server Mistakes - Shrinking Databases

I don’t like there being an easy command to shrink databases, and I especially don’t like seeing the shrink option...

SQL Bloggers – Build Your Brand And Sponsor SQLSaturday #49

As you may know we like to try new stuff here in Orlando, and this is another new thing. I’ve...