SQL University: Advanced Indexing – Indexing Strategies
Right, I know it’s Friday and everyone’s tired and looking forward to the weekend, but I do need to finish...
2011-11-11
1,579 reads
SQL In The Wild
SQL University: Advanced Indexing – Filtered Indexes
Welcome back to day 2 of Advanced Indexing. Today we’re going to look at a feature that was added in...
2011-11-09
1,927 reads
SQL University: Advanced indexing – Sorting and Grouping
Good day everyone and welcome to another week of SQL University. I know we’re getting close to the end of...
2011-11-07
2,673 reads
24 Hours of PASS Questions
I finally found the time to work through the questions from the 24 Hours of PASS session that I did....
2011-09-27
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Compiles and recompiles
I want to spend some time over the next few months looking at query compilation and the plan cache, and...
2011-08-16
3,269 reads
All about Execution Plans
Coming to the PASS Summit in October this year? Excellent!
I say excellent, because Grant (blog|twitter) and I are presenting a...
2011-08-09
766 reads
SQLSkills Immersion training in London
Just short of the winter solstice, I bailed out of a freezing cold Johannesburg for warmer climates; well, actually for...
2011-07-22
1,245 reads
Converting OR to Union
When I looked at indexing for queries containing predicates combined with OR, it became clear that the are some restrictive...
2011-07-05
1,594 reads
Are all updates split into delete-insert?
This should be another quick one.
Earlier I saw a forum post where someone asserted that SQL always executes an update...
2011-06-21
4,787 reads
T-SQL Tuesday: Disasters don’t just come in huge
So we’re supposed to talk about disasters we’ve had or discuss disaster recovery technologies. I’m going to take a slightly...
2011-06-14
728 reads
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...
Side Projects
Anyone (everyone?) who has ever tried to learn a programming language knows that to...
Forums
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)...