In one of the discussions this week, I mentioned to the group a video I saw a few years ago that is quite humorous and has some element that will speak to almost anyone who has ever worked on any...
I recently came across a new blog by Ramesh Meyyappan on “Seek or Scan – Cost Based Optimizer in SQL Server“. In the youtube video (17 minutes) he covers the topic with some good examples and explanations, assuming you have...
Oft times trying to use the SQL SSIS Import wizard to load data into SQL server from excel you run into data type conversion errors and have to go through many machinations to alter the offending column data types and...
I can see the confused looks. “Joel what are you talking about?” We’re talking about Batches By default, in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), your query is submitted and executed in a batch. The batch separates the work you want...