I've been in an argument with one of our devs that took an update statement with an inner join and made it a left join (because inner was missing some records somehow in the left table - tableB in ...

As an SQL fan, I have lots of SQL statements in my application (right now most are embedded quoted within Java code, but I hope to change that). Of course, we all know the parameterization stuff: ...

The most important performance-tuning technique available is having the needed indexes created on the tables to ensure that the SQL Server database engine is able to get the data that it needs to as ...