I had the opportunity to tune a highly-used function the other day, and was most puzzled by the difference between the old and the new function. This was on SQL Server 2005, and I was able to repro the issue on-server, but not on my SQL Server 2012 instance. The old function specified the return […]
While you wait for my awesome upcoming blog on data exception notification with SSRS, let’s pursue a whim of mine. I want your techie book recommendations. Write me a tweet @MidnightDBA, or in the comments below, that compels me to read your book of choice. (Yes, you can recommend your own book.) But the tweet better […]
This will be an unusually political Un-SQL Friday – and it’s two days early, to boot – but I’m making an exception to my no-politics-in-SQL rule – because it’s about internet freedoms. I hereby declare this WEDNESDAY Un-SQL Friday. While T-SQL Tuesday is “…the SQL Server blogosphere’s first recurring, revolving blog party….on the chosen [SQL-related] […]