When row estimation goes wrong
Whilst working at a client site, I hit upon one of those issues that you are not sure if that...
2012-11-29 (first published: 2012-11-26)
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Dave Ballantynes blog
Advanced TSQL training
Over the past few years, Ive had it on my to do list to write and deliver and full-scale SQLServer...
2012-10-28
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SQL Saturday 162
SQL Saturday 162 was a great event, kudos to the team involved and I took a lot of pleasure in...
2012-09-09
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Reporting on common code smells : A POC
Over the past few blog entries, I’ve been looking at parsing TSQL scripts in a variety of ways for a...
2012-08-29
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How to prevent ‘Select *’ : The elegant way
UPDATE 2012-09-12 For my latest adventures with TSQL Parsers please see this post.
I’ve been doing a lot of work with the...
2012-08-09
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Joining on NULLs
A problem I see on a fairly regular basis is that of dealing with NULL values. Specifically here, where we...
2012-07-26
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Indexed view deadlocking
Deadlocks can be a really tricky thing to track down the root cause of. There are lots of articles on...
2012-06-22 (first published: 2012-06-13)
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“Query cost (relative to the batch)” <> Query cost relative to batch
OK, so that is quite a contradictory title, but unfortunately it is true. There is a common misconception that the query with...
2012-05-10
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Offset without OFFSET
A while ago Robert Cary posted an article on SQL Server Central entitled 2005 Paging – The Holy Grail which is,...
2012-04-26
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Parsing T-SQL – The easy way
UPDATE 2012-09-12 : For my latest adventures with TSQL Parsers please see this post
Every once in a while, I hit an issue...
2012-03-13
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Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Music
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
A New Word: Suente
By Steve Jones
suente– n. the state of being so familiar with someone that you can be...
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Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
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Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Timeout Error while executing a TSQL statement in Sql server Express Edition
I am getting the below error when I execute a SQL command in SQL...
Sql script replace and rearrange numbers
Hi everyone. I have this table and this information. (left side of the image)...