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See consultingEvery year, I run a Black Friday sale to reward people who read the blog our all year long but can't get their boss to spring for my regular full price training classes. This is your chance to get a one-year access to my fundamentals and mastering training classes, widely regarded as some of the…
This is the third Office Hours in a row from the same cruise ship! Y'all keep banging out really good questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here's what we discussed today aboard the Norwegian Encore on the last Alaskan cruise of the 2026 season.
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Hugo Kornelis is a database consultant in the Netherlands. Here are a few of his sites that you might recognize: SQLServerFast.com - his useful and insightful blog The Execution Plan Reference - the only exhaustive, detailed explanation I'm aware of for every execution plan operator, well above and beyond Microsoft's documentation Hugo's execution plan classes…
Let's say you're working with a big copy of the Stack Overflow database, and you wanna get all the users, like for a data export. SQL Server doesn't parallelize this query, not even if you use the query hint that asks for a parallel plan:
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