Archive | September, 2009

How did I get involved with this SQL Server thing?

by Mike Walsh on 09. Sep, 2009 in Personal, Pet Peeve, Syndicate

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 [...]

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You Could Be Suffering Right Now

by Mike Walsh on 01. Sep, 2009 in Best Practices, Performance, Syndicate

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 [...]

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