What’s Next?

By Greg 2 comments

Over the last 15+ years as I’ve learnt more and more about SQL Server, I have come to realise how much I love working with it. The more I dig into it, the more I see a need for companies to understand how to keep their data secure, how to keep it available, and how […]

Recording of Adding Commas to Missing Index Requests in sp_BlitzIndex

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I did some work on sp_BlitzIndex recently. Check out the clip on YouTube:

CTEs are not Staging Tables

By Greg 1 comment

If you have a complex query, a CTE (Common Table Expression) can be a great way to break down the query into individual parts. What is often overlooked by developers is that CTEs can cause significant performance problems when used incorrectly. A common pattern I have seen is joining to a CTE multiple times. This […]