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.
October 2009 - Posts
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Lock escalation is a funny thing. I've found myself on numerous occasions waging war against its concurrency-sapping existence, and rarely have I found myself wishing that it would work more aggressively. But there is a time and place for everything, Read More...
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A few days ago Aaron posted yet another fantastic entry in his Bad Habits series, this one discussing mishandling of date ranges in queries . This is a topic near and dear to me, having had to clean up a lot of poorly thought out code in the past few Read More...
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My last post in Aaron's series drew a mixed review from some readers, and I'm sure this one will do the same. But that's part of the fun! One of the biggest threats to maintainability is code that's not properly formatted. When I'm called in by a customer Read More...
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Aaron has recently been doing an absolutely fantastic series of posts detailing various "bad habits" that many of us pick up somewhere along the way. These coding anti-patterns aren't going to crash your server, but they will make your code more difficult Read More...
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