Trailing Spaces in SQL Server
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A long time ago I built an application that captured user input. One feature of the application was to compare the user's input against...
2019-06-18
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Bert Wagner
12 Ways To Rewrite SQL Queries for Better Performance
Watch this week’s video on YouTube. Thanks to you, we just crossed the 2k subscriber mark! Over the past several week’s I’ve been exploring ways to rewrite queries to improve...
2019-06-13 (first published: 2019-05-28)
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Joker's Wild
This past weekend I had a blast presenting Joker's Wild with Erin Stellato (blog|twitter), Andy Mallon (blog|twitter), and Drew Furgiuele (blog|twitter).
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Table of contents:
What is...
2019-06-11
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CHOOSE() in SQL Server
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. While I know I don’t utilize most of the features available in SQL Server, I like to think I’m at least aware that those features...
2019-06-04
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CHOOSE() in SQL Server
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While I know I don't utilize most of the features available in SQL Server, I like to think I'm at least aware that those features exist.
This...
2019-06-04
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Predicate Execution Order on Mixed Data Type Columns
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. SQL Server’s cost-based query optimizer does a pretty good job of figuring out what order to filter your data to get fast query...
2019-06-04 (first published: 2019-05-21)
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12 Ways To Rewrite SQL Queries for Better Performance
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Over the past several week's I've been exploring ways to rewrite queries to improve execution performance.
I learned a lot of these techniques over time from...
2019-05-28
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Animating a Magic 8 Ball in SQL Server Management Studio
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #114 prompt by Matthew McGiffen. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database...
2019-05-24 (first published: 2019-05-14)
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Predicate Execution Order on Mixed Data Type Columns
Watch this week's video on YouTube
SQL Server's cost-based query optimizer does a pretty good job of figuring out what order to filter your data to get fast query executions....
2019-05-21
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Animating a Magic 8 Ball in SQL Server Management Studio
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #114 prompt by Matthew McGiffen. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about different database...
2019-05-14
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Parsing EXE Output in PowerShell
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I saw a post internally that asked this question: Anyone have a handy powershell...
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Can You See Who Forced a Plan
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Concat Addition
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