How to Increase Query Speed With a Little Communication
How my former boss solved a performance issue by changing the business rules, instead of query optimization.
Is it Time to Switch to ELT?
Extract-load-transform integration can offer performance and cost advantages over ETL. Here's how to pick the right approach.
Early July 2010 PASS VC Presentations
In July start with the following presentations from the AppDev and DBA Virtual Chapters of PASS:
Loops, Lookups and Splits: SSIS Beyond the Basics
Why Should I use Stored Procedures?
The Private Cloud
Cloud computing is becoming more and more prevalent in technology. However most people think of a public cloud on the Internet. Steve Jones says a private cloud might be a better idea for many companies.
A closer look at CXPACKET wait type in SQL Server
If you have a server that has more than one CPU core, you may experience high values of CXPACKET wait types. This is typically due to queries that run in parallel and the real issue is to understand how different versions of a query can impact CXPACKET waits. In this tip we examine how changing a query can impact CXPACKET waits.
Copy-and-Paste SSIS Execution Monitoring with Failure-Alert Email
This SSIS package monitors the execution of any SSIS tasks pasted into its sequence container, and sends an email when a failure of any embedded task occurs.
GOSQL vs. NOSQL
If we're getting pulled down a blind alley by acronyms, we may as well make up a more optimistic one.
The Utilty
Is Information Technology a utility service for companies? Steve Jones thinks it can, and should, be, but it can also be a lot more. It can be a strategic part of your enterprise.
TSQL Challenge 34-Search for two keywords within the maximum distance
This challenge is all about searching for two keywords in a string with a maximum distance of 'one word' between them.
Physical Join Operators in SQL Server - Hash Operator
In the concluding part of the Physical Operators series we look at the Hash operator.
Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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