Cardinality: Not Just For The Birds
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When building indexes for your queries, the order of your index key columns matters. SQL Server can make the most effective use of an...
2019-01-29
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Cardinality: Not Just For The Birds
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When building indexes for your queries, the order of your index key columns matters. SQL...
2019-01-29
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Cardinality: Not Just For The Birds
Watch this week's video on YouTube
When building indexes for your queries, the order of your index key columns matters. SQL Server can make the most effective use of an...
2019-01-29
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SQL FAILS with Andy Mallon, Erin Stellato, and Mr. Anonymous!
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While most of us strive to make as few mistakes as possible when it comes...
2019-01-25 (first published: 2019-01-15)
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Optimizing for Ad Hoc Workloads
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The execution plan cache is a great feature: after SQL Server goes through the effort of generating a query plan, SQL Servers saves that...
2019-01-22
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Optimizing for Ad Hoc Workloads
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The execution plan cache is a great feature: after SQL Server goes through the effort of generating a query plan, SQL Servers saves that...
2019-01-22
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SQL FAILS with Andy Mallon, Erin Stellato, and Mr. Anonymous!
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While most of us strive to make as few mistakes as possible when it comes to our servers and data, accidents do occasionally happen.
Sometimes...
2019-01-15
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SQL FAILS with Andy Mallon, Erin Stellato, and Mr. Anonymous!
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While most of us strive to make as few mistakes as possible when it comes to our servers and data, accidents do occasionally happen.
Sometimes...
2019-01-15
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Visualizing Hash Match Join Internals And Understanding Their Implications
This post is part 3 in a series about physical join operators (be sure to check out part 1 – nested...
2019-01-10 (first published: 2019-01-02)
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T-SQL Documentation Generator
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #110 prompt by Garry Bargsley. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2019-01-08
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Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
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Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
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Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central
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Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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