Jeremiah Peschka just dropped a great post on prepping for an upcoming SQL Server conference: Random Thoughts for Enjoying the PASS Summit. Not going to PASS? Don’t worry – this is a great general-purpose packing list. Use this to prep for any trade show or conference. Thanks, Jeremiah. Tweet This Post
Working in SQL requires a mind-shift from procedural thinking to set-based thinking. Although you can get SQL to operate one record at a time, it’s usually slower, and almost always painful to force SQL to work like that. One of the implications of set-based operations is that traditional single-value variables can’t quite handle many processing [...]