Had I known the number of responses I would have gotten about running SQL Server in virtual environments, I would have spent more time writing
I’d like to do a post or two on running SQL Server 2005 within a virtual machine. Before I get into all sorts of fun
In my previous post, I talked about the basics of partition elimination and mentioned some of the challenges. SQL 2005 does contain logic to do
Horizontal Table and Index Partitioning, where different rows in the same logical table are split into different physical tables, is an essential data warehousing tool.
So one of the features I had a hand in building in SQL Server 2005 is really useful for helping SQL Server work well in
One of the reasons I’m posting up content like this is to help all of you learn a bit of what I have bouncing around
So I’ll be posting explanations for each query operator in the output query trees that you can see through “set showplan_text on” in SQL Server.
For a number of years, the marketing for SQL Server’s competitors made a large number of claims that SQL Server couldn’t handle “Enterprise”-scale deployments. Over
I’ve been trying to think of a good way to introduce how SQL Server does subqueries based on a question from a reader. One of
This post builds upon my previous post on some of the various kinds of plans for the IN operator. I will cover some of the
In this post, I’ll go over a few things about IN plans in the SQL Server Query Optimizer. Currently I’m using the SQL Server 2008
I’ve already received a few comments and mails from people asking questions… One comment I’ve received is about LINQ’s IN operator(method?) and SQL Server plan
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