Materials from Music City Data
Aaron shares his slides and demos from his most recent delivery of T-SQL : Bad Habits and Best Practices.
Category: SQL Server
Features and Fixes in SentryOne Plan Explorer 19.1.2
Read about the improvements in the latest version of SentryOne Plan Explorer, 19.1.2.
Another limitation of STRING_SPLIT
Did you know that not all characters can be used as the separator for STRING_SPLIT?
Partitioning Data without using Partitioned Tables
Read about an approach to partitioning a result set without the performance impact of NTILE.
PREVIEW : SentryOne Plan Explorer extension for Azure Data Studio
Find out what's in the SentryOne Plan Explorer extension for Azure Data Studio.
How to Alter User Defined Table Types
See how to work around the lack of an ALTER TYPE command.
SQL Server 2019 Execution Plan Enhancements
Discover some of the new information SQL Server keeps adding to help us troubleshoot query plans.
SQL Server Management Studio 18.2
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!
Find SQL Server Integer Columns to Make Skinnier
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).
Four T-SQL Syntax Rules I Always Follow
Aaron Bertrand explains four conventions he always follows when writing T-SQL queries.
Simplify Date Period Calculations
See how you can use new functions like DATEFROMPARTS to simplify otherwise really cryptic methods to obtain key dates (like the first day of the current month).
NOLOCK Anomalies, Issues and Inconsistencies
Get a first-hand look at some of the ways NOLOCK can produce incorrect data.
Learning Pathways at PASS Summit 2019
Learning Pathways are a new, innovative way to take advantage of the sessions offered at PASS Summit.
SQLDay in Wroclaw, Poland : Slides & Samples
Aaron Bertrand shares his slides and demos from his presentations at SQLDay in Wrocław, Poland.
Five Things I Wish I Knew When I Started My Career
Aaron Bertrand talks about a few of the things that he wished he had learned earlier on.
CASE Expression Overview
This tip shows how powerful the CASE expression is, and some of the nuances in its behavior.
Sharing two T-SQL slide decks from CodeStock
Aaron Bertrand shares his slide decks and demos from two recent presentations at CodeStock in Knoxville, TN.
Query Extended Properties from Multiple Databases
See one approach to collecting extended properties information across all of the databases on a server.
Manage SQL Server Agent History More Effectively
Break free from the limitations of history retention and take control at the job or even step level.
Features and Fixes in SentryOne Plan Explorer 19.0.2
See what improvements were made in SentryOne Plan Explorer 19.0.2.
Scale Bulk Loading On a Budget – Part 2
In part 2 of this series, we add another way to further isolate multiple threads of a bulk import process.