Techniques that a professional database developer should master
2022TL; DR
Optimize your skills as a database developer by avoiding classic mistakes and using suitable analysis options to identify bottlenecks.
Session Details
Are you already an experienced programmer and know your way around the Microsoft SQL Server development language? Still, there are always problems with query runtimes that you cannot explain to yourself. Data is not written to database tables fast enough and you are looking for ways to optimize ETL processes?
These are all things that pose new challenges for a database developer daily. This workshop for database developers closes many of these gaps and uses practical examples to explain, analyze and solve the problems.
– Parameter sniffing
– Non SARGable queries
– Sort spills
– Implicit conversion
– NOLOCK / TABLOCK
– Temporary tables vs. Table variables
– Recursive CTEs
– partitioning
– scalar functions
This workshop is suitable for database developers who are already beyond the basics and want to sharpen the nuances. Ideally, you already have experience with execution plans and are very familiar with the SQL Server Management Studio.
3 things you'll get out of this session
Speakers
Uwe Ricken's other proposed sessions for 2026
Demystifying Clustered Indexes in SQL Server - 2026
Evolution of User-Defined Functions in Microsoft SQL Server - 2026
How to properly handle LOB data in SQL Server - 2026
Leveraging JSON in Microsoft SQL Server - 2026
SQL Performance Pitfalls: Identification and Optimization Lab - 2026
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