How To Create Multi-Object JSON Arrays in SQL Server

Recently I was discussing with Peter Saverman whether it would be possible to take some database tables that look like this:

And output them so that the Cars and Toys...

Learning Through Blogging and Speaking

This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday prompt created by Mala Mahadevan. T-SQL Tuesday was created by Adam Machanic and is a way for SQL users...

Learning Through Blogging and Speaking

This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday prompt created by Mala Mahadevan. T-SQL Tuesday was created by...

Reducing the Number of Reads in Your Queries

“A-Bridged” – reducing reads – get it?  I’m sorry you’re reading this.  Photo by Jamie Street on UnsplashIn last week’s post, we went over how...

Reducing the Number of Reads in Your Queries

In last week's post, we went over how one of best ways to improve query performance was to reduce the number of reads that your query has to do.
Less reads...

How to use Statistics IO to Improve Your Query Performance

SQL Server's STATISTICS IO reporting is a great tool to help you performance tune queries.
Usually the goal of performance tuning is to make your query run faster.  One of...

How to use Statistics IO to Improve Your Query Performance

SQL Server’s STATISTICS IO reporting is a great tool to help you performance tune queries.Usually the goal of performance tuning...

My Favorite SSMS Shortcut (After Copy/Paste)

Photo by Abhishek Desai on UnsplashIf there’s one keyboard shortcut I use more than any other (with the exception of...

My Favorite SSMS Shortcut (After Copy/Paste)

If there's one keyboard shortcut I use more than any other (with the exception of copy and paste) it would be the ALT + highlight multi-line edit/block selection shortcut.
Let's...

Does The Join Order of My Tables Matter?

I had a great question submitted to me (thank you Brandman!) that I thought would make for a good blog post:

...I've been wondering if it really matters from a...