A subtle redirection
Give your Docker container port numbers meaning to avoid confusion, especially when presenting or giving demos.
Originally published in 2009, I updated this in 2019 with an example showing an effect on the plan cache.
Aaron shares his slides and demos from his most recent delivery of T-SQL : Bad Habits and Best Practices.
Read about the improvements in the latest version of SentryOne Plan Explorer, 19.1.2.
Did you know that not all characters can be used as the separator for STRING_SPLIT?
Read about an approach to partitioning a result set without the performance impact of NTILE.
Find out what's in the SentryOne Plan Explorer extension for Azure Data Studio.
See how to work around the lack of an ALTER TYPE command.
Discover some of the new information SQL Server keeps adding to help us troubleshoot query plans.
One of the biggest downsides of using SQL Server Management Studio as an interactive query tool is the limit on text/grid output. SSMS 18.2 fixes that!
In this tip, you'll see the metadata queries that will make it possible to discover which integer-based columns could be made smaller (without any loss of data).
Aaron Bertrand explains four conventions he always follows when writing T-SQL queries.