March 2010 - Posts

• Did You Know: So Many User Groups, So Little Time

  In May and June of this year, I'll be giving four user groups presentations plus speaking at a SQL Saturday event. You can check my schedule for links to the relevant sites, and a description of my topics, as soon as they are available. This post is mainly Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2010 5:23 PM by Kalen Delaney | 24 Comments Filed under: training, user groups

• T-SQL Tuesday #4: I/O, You Know

  It's time for the fourth T-SQL Tuesday , managed this time by Mike Walsh . I almost missed this deadline completely, since I didn't see the announcement at all. I wrote to Adam to ask if there even was an event this month, since I wasn't able to get into Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010 3:22 PM by Kalen Delaney | 13 Comments Filed under: Performance, T-SQL Tuesday

• Geek City: More About Nonclustered Index Keys

  I thought I had said almost all that could be said about nonclustered index keys in a post made almost exactly two years ago , on March 16, 2008. But there's more. To get all the benefit from today's post, you'll really have to read that one, but I'll Read More... Posted Sunday, March 7, 2010 5:04 PM by Kalen Delaney | 509 Comments Filed under: internals, storage, indexes