Klaus Aschenbrenner

My SQLrally Session about how to measure Index Impact Changes

During the current week I have spoken at 2 SQLrally conferences, once in Stockholm/Sweden, and once in Amsterdam/Netherlands. At both conferences I have presented my brand-new session titled “How to measure Index Impact Changes”. The goal of the session is very easy: imagine you want to change your Indexing Strategy in for your production system, …

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Announcing the SQLpassion Academy 2014 Course Schedule

Time flies by, and the year 2013 is almost over for me. So it’s time to announce the course schedule of the SQLpassion Academy for the next year. I’m running in March 2014 my SQL Server Performance Tuning & Troubleshooting Workshop across 4 different locations in Europe. Besides the usual locations I’m also running my workshop …

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Fixing Cardinality Estimation Errors with Filtered Statistics

Cardinality Estimation is one of the hidden gems in SQL Server. In general, Cardinality Estimation means that the Query Optimizer tries to find out during the query compilation, how many rows – on average – are returned from the various operators in the Execution Plan. This estimation is used to drive the plan generation itself …

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