by andrew novick | Dec 15, 2020 | SQL coding
I responded to a posted question about the EOMONTH() function, which was: if there’s an EOMONTH function, why isn’t there a start of month function. The reason is that DATEFROMPARTS does the trick. It was added in SQL 2012 along with EOMONTH and...
by andrew novick | Dec 9, 2020 | SQL coding, SQL Performance
I attended a webinar on Microsoft Databricks yesterday. The only link I have is a zoom registration so you’ll have to search. I’m sure they’ll run it again. The hands-on-lab made it very worthwhile. The rest was marketing fluff. They did a good...
by andrew novick | Nov 16, 2020 | SQL coding
It’s time to mail your holiday cards. Whether it’s Christmas, New Years, Chanukah, or something else, there are going to be billions of cards sent in the next few weeks. One of the tasks that my wife and I face each year is getting all the addresses...
by andrew novick | Dec 1, 2016 | SQL coding, SQL Performance, Talks and Seminars
in-memory-tables-with-natively-compiled-t-sql-blazing-speed-for-oltp-and-more The SQL Server 2014 and 2016 Hekaton project brings us In-Memory tables and Natively Compiled T-SQL objects that run at amazing speed. What you can accomplish is astounding. This...
by andrew novick | Sep 20, 2016 | Past Events, Presentations, SQL coding, SQL Performance
Download the presentation: 100-times-faster-experiences-making-sql-server-fly-sql-saturday-prov-2015-12-12 How do you go about making a program run a lot faster! Like 100 times faster? It’s difficult. Microsoft tried in the Hekaton project, its in-memory tables...
