Wayne Sheffield

My blog about SQL Server

Browsing Posts published in July, 2016

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be going on a Central Texas SQL Tour in mid-August. First up is the San Antonio SQL Saturday – I’ve been selected to be a speaker. This is really special because this is San Antonio’s first ever SQL Saturday!!! I’ll be presenting what is probably my favorite presentation – […]

This post is re-published from my original post on SQL Solutions Group. I hope that you enjoy it. When investigating a performance issue, the desired end result is already known… you need to make the queries run faster. It’s been my experience that most performance problems involve optimizing the query that is being run—sometimes the […]

Recently (okay, it went live a month ago, and I’m super-late in my blog post!), I was the guest on the podcast that Carlos Chacon of SQLDataPartners publishes. In this podcast, we talk about Table Variables and Temporary Tables (if you’ve been to one of my presentations on this topic, then you know what’s coming!). […]

It’s been a while since I’ve written a T-SQL Tuesday post, mainly because I just wasn’t inspired by the topic. And truth be told, this one was turning out to be that way also. But then today, I was wishing that SQL Server would track something that it doesn’t do, and I realized that I […]