You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get going and bang! The times up. There’s only so much material that can be presented in just one hour. And if there are a lot of questions, you may not have enough time to […]
(2017-2022)
A while back, I wrote a blog post showing the differences (including performance) between Inline Table-Valued Functions (ITVF) and Multi-Statement Table-Valued Functions (MSTVF). Since then, whenever I speak about ITVFs / MSTVFs, I’m frequently asked about how Scalar Functions (SF) perform. My stock answer has always been that they perform similarly to a MSTVF, and […]
You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get going and bang! The times up. There’s only so much material that can be presented in just one hour. And if there are a lot of questions, you may not have enough time to […]
Earlier this month, I hosted the 61st occurrence of the monthly TSQL-Tuesday blogging party. With a topic of “Giving Back”, it had a great turnout (27 party-goers). As I read through all of their posts, I noticed that many are planning to give back in pretty predictable ways – but there are some pretty surprising […]
A little over 5 years ago, Adam Machanic (B|T) had this great idea of getting everyone in the SQL Community to all blog about a specific topic on the second Tuesday of the month. This monthly “blogging party” has a host, aka party organizer, that decides the theme. It has evolved: it goes by the […]
The Season of Giving The annual PASS Summit (otherwise known as the #SQLFamily reunion) is over. Here in the United States, we have just finished celebrating Thanksgiving, where the average person consumes more calories in two hours than what they need for a week. And we are entering the season (that has now been active […]
You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get going and bang! The times up. There’s only so much material that can be presented in just one hour. Recognizing this, last year my friend Jason Brimhall and I teamed up and created an […]
You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get going and bang! The times up. There’s only so much material that can be presented in just one hour. Recognizing this, last year my friend Jason Brimhall and I teamed up and created an […]
Well, here it is again. The second Tuesday of the month, which means that it’s T-SQL Tuesday. T-SQL Tuesday… that wonderful monthly blogging party started by Adam Machanic (Blog | @AdamMachanic). The intent is to get the entire SQL Community together on a monthly basis to blog about a common theme – to get each […]
You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get going and bang! The times up. There’s only so much material that can be presented in just one hour. Recognizing this, last year my friend Jason Brimhall and I teamed up and created an […]
