Monthly Archives: December 2010

On the Fifth Day of SQL…

Welcome to the Twelve Days of SQL series hosted by Brent Ozar ( blog | @BrentO ), I have the honor of hosting the fifth day! I won’t be passing out golden rings, but I did want to share one of my favorite posts from the year. Parallelism, Processing and Options In May, Adam Machanic…

TSQL Tuesday #013: Challenges with the business

Welcome to December’s TSQL Tuesday post brought to you courtesy of Steve Jones ( blog | Twitter ).  In his post last week, Steve asked, “What issues have you had in interacting with the business to get your job done?” I just want to be inspired. – Dorothy Boyd I had a hard time with…

Disabling Indexes: Saving Time, Saving Space

One of the things I have to do for customers from time to time is alter data in their database. I don’t especially like doing this, simply because I’m messing with customer data and there is an immense amount of responsibility that comes with that. It’s not that I’m averse to being responsible; it can…