Here is the introductory post to my new blog on SQL, data-driven applications, performance, scaling, and anything else I feel like posting. For those of you who do not know me, Paul Randal (http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/) and I worked together on Microsoft SQL Server for a number of years. While Paul worked in the Storage Engine, I worked on the Query Processor. Like Paul, I left Microsoft about a year ago (all good things must come to an end…). Paul and Kimberly have been gracious enough to host me on their site so I can help answer questions about SQL Server, teach people a bit about what I know, and force me to learn a few things as well.<\/p>\n
While at Microsoft, I was a development lead on the Query Optimizer and had architectural dutues for much of the query pipeline.<\/p>\n
I actually blogged in my official capacity at Microsoft. You can read about my previous posts here (http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/queryoptteam\/) and here (http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/sqlqueryprocessing\/default.aspx).<\/p>\n
I’ll be posting some content about the new SQL Server 2008 features I find interesting over the coming weeks. I’m also happy to answer general questions about the Query Processor or SQL Server in general.<\/p>\n
So, welcome!<\/p>\n
Sincerely,
Conor Cunningham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here is the introductory post to my new blog on SQL, data-driven applications, performance, scaling, and anything else I feel like posting. For those of you who do not know me, Paul Randal (http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/) and I worked together on Microsoft SQL Server for a number of years. While Paul worked in the Storage Engine, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server-2008"],"yoast_head":"\n