Adam Machanic, Boston-based SQL Server developer, shares his experiences with programming, monitoring, and performance tuning SQL Server. And the occasional battle with the query optimizer.
July 2007 - Posts
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In college, as part of my philosophy degree, I took a course on metaphysics. I can still vividly remember the first class. The professor presented us with a simple enough scenario: Consider a wooden boat, whose construction has just finished. Now fast-forward Read More...
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So just like poor Hugo , I've been tagged by the menacing Denis , asked to describe the steps I will take to becoming a better developer over the next six months. I gave this some thought, and decided that I won't commit to reading any more technical Read More...
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One of the coolest things about SQLblog--aside from our bloggers, of course--is the roller feature. Here we aggregate posts from many of the best external blog sites, and give them to you in one convenient place/feed. I've personally used this feature Read More...
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A year ago this week, I moved my SQLJunkies blog over to this one, on SQLblog.com . I decided to cross-post for a while in order to take advantage of the syndication offered by SQLJunkies. At this point, it seems that my SQLblog blog is getting more activity Read More...
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