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[Video] Office Hours: 4 Great Questions Off Canada

October 30, 2026

This is the third Office Hours in a row from the same cruise ship! Y'all keep banging out really good questions at https://pollgab.com/room/brento. Here's what we discussed today aboard the Norwegian Encore on the last Alaskan cruise of the 2026 season.

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Meet Hugo Kornelis, Execution Plan Expert.

October 29, 2026

Hugo Kornelis is a database consultant in the Netherlands. Here are a few of his sites that you might recognize: SQLServerFast.com - his useful and insightful blog The Execution Plan Reference - the only exhaustive, detailed explanation I'm aware of for every execution plan operator, well above and beyond Microsoft's documentation Hugo's execution plan classes…

Performance Tuning

Why You Don’t Get Parallelism When You Ask for The Whole Table

October 28, 2026

Let's say you're working with a big copy of the Stack Overflow database, and you wanna get all the users, like for a data export. SQL Server doesn't parallelize this query, not even if you use the query hint that asks for a parallel plan:

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New Stuff in the Mastering Server Tuning Class

October 27, 2026

I just got done with another rotation of my Mastering classes, so if you've got a membership to those recordings, it's time to head in and watch the changed modules. This is especially true if you've got an annual subscription, and you're planning on canceling this November before your renewal hits - get in there now and watch the new stuff before your membership expires!