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Generating T-SQL with AI, a quick demo on YouTube

by nsadmin | Apr 17, 2025 | SQL coding, SQL Performance, Videos

The YouTube video by Andy Novick demonstrates using a large language model (specifically Grok-3 in April 2025) to generate T-SQL code for a simple ETL task. Novick, a SQL Server consultant, provides a scenario involving moving data between two similar tables with...

Writing Faster T-SQL Stored Procedures and Functions: Lessons Learned

by nsadmin | Apr 28, 2015 | Past Events, SQL coding, Talks and Seminars

PDF From Seacoast SQL 2015-04-27 Improving SQL Server Performance by Writing Faster T-SQL Code SeaCoast SQL UG 2015-04-27 Download file with Examples: Writing-Faster-T-SQL-Andy_Novick-Examples-2015-04-27 Recorded Webinar September 2014: Video Stored procedures and...

Proposed Solution to the Performance Problem with SQL Server Scalar UDFs

by nsadmin | Aug 20, 2014 | SQL Performance

This article is a copy if a enhancement request that I have submitted on the feedback section of the Microsoft Connect web site.  Here’s a link to the item: https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=273443 You may have to log...

SQL Server Performace on Solid State Drives (SSD)

by nsadmin | Aug 20, 2014 | SQL Storage Management

Solid State Disks (SSDs) are devices that take advantage of the high speed nature of flash memory chips to provide fast persistent data storage. SSD’s come in a variety of forms that are suitable for different purposes. The most common forms of SSD are: 2.5” disk...

sp_storage: A proc to manage disk space in SQL Server

by nsadmin | Aug 20, 2014 | SQL Storage Management

Status = Version 1 Download the procedure script from here: sp_storage-procedure-creation-script If you can use the CLR add this script for the drive_info routine Download the bare (no procedure creation) script here: sp_storage-non-procedure-script (the bare script...
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