Pluralsight Free April
It’s a few days into April, but not too late I hope to mention that Pluralsight is offering their entire library, free to new accounts, for the month of April. Sign up on their promotion page to take...
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On table variable row estimations
At first glance, the question of how many rows are estimated from a table variable is easy. But, is it really that simple? Well, not really. To dig into the why, first we need to identify why table...
View ArticleThe black pit of despair
The year’s been hell, I think most everyone agrees. For me, in addition to all the external problems, I’ve been fighting with depression ranging from bothersome to near-crippling. This is not advice,...
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What is deferred compilation?
When I talked about row estimations for table variables, I mentioned ‘deferred compile’, but didn’t give a whole lot of details. What, then, is a deferred compilation? Let’s start with how batches...
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Trust, but verify
Every year my company runs a graduate bootcamp, 2 months of teaching new grads what they need to know to write production-ready software. This post was inspired by something that happened during this...
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All you need to know about Columnstore Indexes in one article
I realised the other week, that despite a bunch of posts on indexes over the years, I’ve never written a blog post on Columnstore indexes. Time to fix that. Here’s everything you need to know to get...
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