Tag Archives: SQL Server Internals

Sorting behavior

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Richard

One of the best parts of my job is explaining database concepts to non-database folks: developers, managers, CEOs, my wife, etc. One lesson I’ve had to explain numerous times is that SQL Server doesn’t guarantee that data will come back … Continue reading →

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Schema changes and row size

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Richard

I was working on a stored procedure that was misbehaving on a rather massive and embarrassing scale. The code seemed solid. The data model made sense. And yet… Every time I ran this proc it crashed and burned. There were … Continue reading →

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