Gail Shaw is often left bewildered by the weird and wonderful data types people choose for their tables, when storing something as simple as a telephone number or a date.
2024-07-12 (first published: 2015-02-02)
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At first glance, the question of how many rows are estimated from a table variable is easy. But, is it really that simple? Well, not really. To dig into...
2020-12-23 (first published: 2020-12-15)
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At first glance, the question of how many rows are estimated from a table variable is easy. But, is it really that simple? Well, not really. To dig into...
2020-12-15
5 reads
It’s a few days into April, but not too late I hope to mention that Pluralsight is offering their entire library, free to new accounts, for the month of...
2020-04-16 (first published: 2020-04-07)
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It’s a few days into April, but not too late I hope to mention that Pluralsight is offering their entire library, free to new accounts, for the month of...
2020-04-07
5 reads
Gail Shaw issues a rallying call for the SQL Community to adopt the Scientific Method when investigating and reporting on SQL Server behavior.
2019-09-09 (first published: 2015-05-25)
598 reads
Indexes are critical to good performance. However many people don't understand how indexes well. MVP Gail Shaw provides us with an introductory article on the basics of indexing.
2019-05-30 (first published: 2009-10-26)
101,429 reads
My company’s internal conference is in a couple of weeks, so this seems like a good time to have a...
2018-05-04 (first published: 2018-04-24)
2,348 reads
My company’s internal conference is in a couple of weeks, so this seems like a good time to have a quick rant about some presentation failings I’ve seen over...
2018-04-24
10 reads
I originally wrote about catch-all queries early in 2009, just as something that I’d seen several times in client code....
2018-03-26 (first published: 2018-03-13)
4,245 reads
In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other stateful...
By Steve Jones
The 11th episode is now live, recorded a few weeks ago at the PASS...
By Steve Jones
mornden – n. the self-container pajama universe shared by two people on a long...
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