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.
Just a heads up for those in the Boston area: The New England SQL Server Users Group is doing a special event next Wednesday night (January 23), featuring Itzik Ben-Gan, talking about Grouping Sets in SQL Server 2008:
SQL Server 2008 introduces enhanced support for aggregating data addressing the needs to analyze aggregated data dynamically. The enhancements include the new GROUPING SETS clause, the standard CUBE and ROLLUP clauses (not to confuse those with the existing non-standard CUBE and ROLLUP options), the GROUPING_ID function, and other T-SQL enhancements. This session will cover those enhancements in detail, and will describe and demonstrate their practical uses.
This should be a great event, so mark your calendars and check the NESQL Web site for more information. Please note that RSVP is strongly encouraged for this event -- only people who RSVP will be eligible for giveaways that night, and we have a great selection. To get on the list to RSVP, please visit the Web site and sign up for our mailing list. I will send a mailing -- which will include RSVP instructions -- next Monday.
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About Adam Machanic
Adam Machanic is a Boston-based SQL Server developer, writer, and speaker. He focuses on large-scale data warehouse performance and development, and is author of the award-winning SQL Server monitoring stored procedure, sp_WhoIsActive. Adam has written for numerous web sites and magazines, including SQLblog, Simple Talk, Search SQL Server, SQL Server Professional, CoDe, and VSJ. He has also contributed to several books on SQL Server, including "SQL Server 2008 Internals" (Microsoft Press, 2009) and "Expert SQL Server 2005 Development" (Apress, 2007). Adam regularly speaks at conferences and training events on a variety of SQL Server topics. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server, a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP), and an alumnus of the INETA North American Speakers Bureau.