Category: Random helpfulness

Varying Results with Subquery, ORDER BY, MAXDOP

In the speaker rooms of SQL events everywhere, there is wondrous blog material to be had, free for the picking up (as long as you attribute properly).  Speaking of which… Saturday in the SQL Saturday #63 Dallas speaker room, Erin Welker (blog) asked about a problem with a query that’s getting varying results depending on the MAXDOP […]

Tech Books: Caveat Emptor

These days, we have a myriad of ways to judge whether any given product – like, say, a book on SQL Server – is any good. We ask our friends in the industry, check reviews online, or failing anything else, we go for the name we recognize.  “Hey, Dan Bookman has a new version of SQL […]