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The FAST number_rows Query Hint

Query hints are always about tradeoffs—typically you are giving up something, such as flexibility, to achieve more consistency, or very specific performance characteristic. One example of this migt when...

2019-10-29 (first published: )

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New Event Calendar

Speaking Engagements Check out my new Event Calendar, to see my upcoming and past speaking engagements. You can catch me at various events throughout the year. If you are...

2019-10-15

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Quick SSMS Tip

It is widely known that I am a horrible speller and hate to type code. I tend to use a lot of code snippets and reuse code to avoid...

2019-09-20 (first published: )

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Are My SQL Server Indexes Being Used?

Indexes can be incredibly beneficial to your database performance; however, they do come with a cost—indexes both consume storage space and affect insert performance. Therefore, it is important as...

2019-09-11 (first published: )

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Learning Database Design and Power BI Performance

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Free SQL Training: Dive into Databases This December!

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sqlbackups through veeam not updating msdb tables

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We have veeam backups happening everyday on a server where all sql databases are...

Testing whether TRY_CONVERT is losing precision

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Hello All, I am using TRY_CONVERT to parse character data into a decimal column....

need help with assigning a value to a variable

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Hi I am trying to assign the value of the  variable using the output...

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Question of the Day

The Reindeer Count

How many reindeer does Santa have pulling his sleigh? (according to the famous song) Hint, the answers are not base 10.

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