Join Me for Free Live SQL Server Training Next Week.
Next week, I’m teaching my very favorite class live online, for free, two different ways – one with […]
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[Video] Office Hours in Snowy Telluride, Colorado
On a beautiful sunny afternoon in the mountains, I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Audio is […]
Does Your GROUP BY Order Matter?
Sometimes when you do GROUP BY, the order of the columns does matter. For example, these two SELECT […]
Free Live Webcasts: Slide & Demo Versions of How to ...
You’re comfortable writing queries to get the data you need. But you’re uncomfortable if someone asks you how it […]
[Video] Office Hours: Speed Round
Not all of the questions y’all post at https://pollgab.com/room/brento require long-winded answers. Let’s conquer 22 questions in 15 […]
Option Recompile is a Magic Turbo Button That Actually Works.
I didn’t say that – Guy Glantser did. Guy Glantser is an Israeli SQL Server guru with a […]
What Happens When Multiple Queries Compile at Once?
An interesting question came in on PollGab. DBAmusing asked: If a query takes 5-7s to calculate the execution […]
Finding Sister Locations to Help Each Other: Answers & Discussion
This week’s query exercise asked you to find two kinds of locations in the Stack Overflow database: Locations […]
[Video] Office Hours From the Future
To answer today’s questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento, I strapped on my Apple Vision Pro and recorded my persona as […]
Read This Before Your Users Install SSMS 20
SQL Server Management Studio 20 Preview 1 is out, and the new connection dialog has a big change: […]
Updated First Responder Kit and Consultant Toolkit for February 2024
New this month: better sp_BlitzIndex performance on databases with tens of thousands of objects, sp_DatabaseRestore can run test […]
Query Exercise: Finding Sister Locations to Help Each Other
For this week’s query exercise, let’s start with a brief query to get a quick preview of what […]
Find Recent Superstars: Answers & Discussion
Your query exercise for this week was to write a query to find users created in the last […]
Join Me in Orange County for Tuning Databases in One ...
You’ve got production databases in SQL Server or Azure SQL DB, and you want to make ’em faster. […]
Sessions You Should Attend at SQLBits Online 2024
SQLBits 2024 is next month, and the session agenda is out, including the Microsoft-led sessions. If you’re going […]
[Video] Office Hours: Hot Tub Edition
Today’s Office Hours comes from a very different office! I climbed into the hot tub to review your […]
Query Exercise: Find Recent Superstars
For this week’s Query Exercise, we’re working with the Stack Overflow database, and our business users have asked […]
Finding Long Values Faster: Answers & Discussion
In last week’s Query Exercise, our developers had a query that wasn’t going as fast as they’d like: […]
#TSQL2sday Roundup: The Most Recent Issues You Closed.
For this month’s TSQLTuesday, I asked y’all to describe the most recent issues you closed. If you ask […]
[Video] Office Hours: Ask Me Anything About Microsoft Databases
Post your database questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento and upvote the ones you’d like to see me discuss on the […]
Query Exercise: Finding Long Values Faster
Our developers have come to us with a problem query that isn’t as fast as they’d like. Using […]
Improving Cardinality Estimation: Answers & Discussion
Your challenge for last week was to take this Stack Overflow database query to show the top-ranking users […]
The Last Ticket/Issue I Closed #TSQL2sday
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, I asked y’all to write about the most recent ticket or issue that […]
SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Winter 2023
The short story: SQL Server 2019 continues its utter domination of the Microsoft data platform landscape this quarter. […]
[Video] Office Hours: Lumberjack Edition
On a chilly January day, I went through your top-voted questions from https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Yes, it actually gets cold […]
Query Exercise: Improving Cardinality Estimation
Your challenge for this week is to tune a query. Say Stack Overflow has a dashboard that shows […]
Database Changes to Find Tagged Questions Faster: Answers and Discussion
In the last Query Exercise discussion, we hit a performance wall when we were trying to quickly find […]