How did I get involved with this SQL Server thing?

There is another quiz going around the SQL Server blogosphere. Great question again, “How did you get started with SQL Server?” I was tagged by Denis Gobo (Blog, Twitter) when he answered this question here. You can hit his blog to track the lineage of this one.
I have been working with SQL Server for just [...]

September 9th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Personal, Pet Peeve, Syndicate | One comment

You Could Be Suffering Right Now

Implicit Conversions In SQL Server – A Silent Perf Killer
I recently had the opportunity to work with a developer at the day job. He was using a loop (for what he was doing it actually makes sense ) and he had a query that ran great when he stripped the query out of [...]

September 1st, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Best Practices, Performance, Syndicate | Leave a comment