I got a couple of really great questions during my SSWUG Workshop this morning, as I was discussing seeks and scans, and since the answers to the two questions are very related, I decided to address both of them in more detail in this blog post. Most people think about a seek operation as retrieving just one or a few rows, and a scan as ...

As I told you in April, I recorded two more seminars with Stephen Wynkoop, on aspects of Query Processing. The first one will be broadcast on June 30 and the second on August 27. In between, we'll broadcast my Index Internals seminar, on July 23.  Workshops can be replayed for up to a week after the broadcast, and you can even buy a DVD of ...