Russ Thomas – SQL Judo

The Art of SQL Server Database Administration, Development, and Career Skills for the Technically Minded

TSQL Tue #59: My Heroes

I’m looking forward to reading the TSQL2SDAY posts this month.  Hero worship is something I have a bit of a problem with.  The problem being, there are way too many … Continue reading

October 14, 2014 · Leave a comment

Violating AdventureWorks Dating Policy with Merge, Hash, and Loop Joins

The logical joins (inner, outer, left, right etc) are familiar to any SQL pro.  As the optimizer selects the physical join type that will actually perform the work however, this part of … Continue reading

October 13, 2014 · Leave a comment

Rolling Upgrade: Synch Mirrors, Log Shipped DR – Lessons Learned

We recently did a hardware/software upgrade of a set of servers participating in synchronous mirroring for HA purposes with a log shipping solution for disaster recovery to a remote location. … Continue reading

October 2, 2014 · Leave a comment