Wayne Sheffield

My blog about SQL Server

Browsing Posts published in August, 2011

On Thursday, Sept 1, 2011 at 7:15pm EST, I’ll be presenting via LiveMeeting to the Curacao SQL Server User Group. This will be my second time presenting to these great folks, and I’m really looking forward for this return visit. The topic is Banish RBAR!, and the abstract for it is: SQL Server is primarily […]

One of the things that I’m the most excited about in “Denali” CTP3 is the enhancements to the OVER clause. One of the things that I’m particular excited about is the addition of the ROWS/RANGE clause support. And one of the reasons that I’m excited about this is that this provides a supported, documented (in […]

One thing that I have seen repeatedly is that (too) many people believe that if you have a clustered index on a table, that you can run a SELECT statement without an ORDER BY clause from that table and the results will be in the order of the clustered index key. Nope, this is absolutely […]

First of all, I didn’t think much about goals for 2010, and subsequently never set any, so I’m going to list the accomplishments that I’ve had in 2010: Articles: 5 articles written; 3 published; 2 submitted and are being published in Jan 2011. Events: Attended SQL Saturday #30 (Richmond, VA) on 4/10/2010 3 Question of […]