Aaron is a Staff Database Reliability Engineer at Stack Overflow. We don't want to say he's old, but his experience dates back to a time when SQL Server 6.5 was considered "modern." He writes here at sqlperformance.com, over at sqlblog.org, and at MSSQLTips.
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Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) investigates a case where two different methods of deriving an inline constant can lead to very different cardinality estimates.
Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) of SQL Sentry discusses a case where assumptions can lead to a poorly-performing query and where exploring other options can pay off.
Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) reflects on the presentation he gave during the PASS Performance VC Summer Performance Palooza 2013 on June 27th, including a wealth of responses to Q & A.
Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) of SQL Sentry gives some quick advice about SQL Server 2014 CTP1: Plan to install it in its own virtual machine, because at this point it doesn't play well with others.
SentryOne's Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) discusses a few additional places to get information useful for decisions about creating new indexes that are suggested as "missing" by various tools.
Wanted to give a heads-up about some of the sessions we're presenting at PASS Summit, some great pre-conference seminars, and a contest you'll really want to consider entering in June and July.
Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) talks about a subtle way that ad hoc queries can interfere with SQL Server performance by taking up more space in the plan cache than they really need.
Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) discusses some obstacles he recently encountered when configuring an Availability Groups lab environment and how some assistance from the community helped him isolate and solve the issues.
