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Free Webcast Tomorrow: Fundamentals of Query Tuning It's time for SQL Server Spring Training! I'm teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free over the next few months. Tomorrow I'm doing Fundamentals of Query Tuning. It's for folks who are comfortable writing queries to get the data they want, but wildly uncomfortable reading query plans and trying to explain why queries aren't going faster. If you look at a query plan and think that the percentages shown mean anything, then it's time for you to get the fundamentals under your belt.

Free Webcast Tomorrow: Fundamentals of Query Tuning

It's time for SQL Server Spring Training! I'm teaching 60-90 minutes of my most popular classes for free over the next few months. Tomorrow I'm doing Fundamentals of Query Tuning. It's for folks who are comfortable writing queries to get the data…

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Black and white greyhound standing behind someone and looking on ad another person is carving a big hunk of meat in a kitchen

Black and white greyhound standing behind someone and looking on ad another person is carving a big hunk of meat in a kitchen

Woo! Got in line early to get some tasty brisket! I like mine with a good smoke ring 😁

25.02.2025 20:13 — 👍 29    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

The P in JAVA stands for Performance.

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Brassica xkcd.com/2827

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DateTime xkcd.com/2867

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Fever xkcd.com/2877

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US Survey Foot xkcd.com/2888

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Physics vs. Magic xkcd.com/2904

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The program at the airport either has an issue with the captions, or it is very Zen

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I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750).

To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.

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