Category: SQL Saturday

Me Me Me, Event Event Event

Dear Readers, Today’s blog shall be entirely stream-of-consciousness, which is to say, I don’t know exactly what I’m going to talk about. Call it an experiment in midweek blogging (when I’m not hyped about any particular topic). Right now at work, I have some queries to put together for an SSRS report; some transaction log […]

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 […]

Overview: SQL Server (SQL Saturday #63)

Here are all the things related to the most awesome Overview: SQL Server session I gave at SQL Saturday #63 April 2, 2011.  This session was live streamed on http://www.bit.ly/DBAShow. That recording (without screen shots) is here. As always, feel free to write with questions and comments! Links:  SQL Server Developer Edition, free to students. DreamSpark.com  SQL Server […]