Matthew McGiffen

I started my career in IT as a developer with Visual Basic, C# and ASP working with SQL Server backends. For the last ten years though I’ve focused on the SQL Server side of things. Currently I’m working for a leading software vendor for the financial industry as a DBA, doing a mixture of development and data architecture. If I have a speciality it is in making things run faster.

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Simple Talks Episode 9–Data masking and subsetting

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The episode on data masking and subetting is out. You can see it here:...

T-SQL Tuesday #180: Avoid Perfect for Good Enough

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I'm listening to Effortless by Greg McKeon (link to author's page) through Audible.com. He...

Book Review – Humanizing Data Strategy by Tiankai Feng

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This book was making its rounds on social media, and the concept seems interesting...

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Ingesting Data From REST API endpoints: Data Engineering with Fabric

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The Hash Join I

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The Hash Join I

What are the two inputs called to a hash join operation in SQL Server? (choose 2)

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