Aaron Bertrand

Aaron (@AaronBertrand) is a Data Platform MVP with industry experience dating back to Classic ASP and SQL Server 6.5. He is editor-in-chief of the performance-related blog, SQLPerformance.com. Aaron's blog focuses on T-SQL bad habits and best practices, as well as coverage of updates and new features in Plan Explorer, SentryOne, and SQL Server.

Articles by Aaron Bertrand

Aaron Bertrand shares his slides, demos, and thoughts from his latest SQLSaturday adventure in Utrecht.
September 30, 2017 | Aaron Bertrand | SQLSaturday, Community 0
Aaron Bertrand shares slides and demo files from his two T-SQL sessions at SQLSaturday #667 in Oslo, Norway.
September 2, 2017 | Aaron Bertrand | SQLSaturday, Community 0
As part of this month's T-SQL Tuesday, Aaron Bertrand describes a few experiences from last decade, from both sides of interviews.
August 8, 2017 | Aaron Bertrand | T-SQL Tuesday, Career 5
Aaron Bertrand introduces a new program here at SentryOne: our PAC Community Ambassadors, who we help get out to more community events.
July 27, 2017 | Aaron Bertrand | Community 0
For T-SQL Tuesday #92, Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) shows one trick he uses to prevent errant DML from running in production.
July 11, 2017 | Aaron Bertrand | SSMS, T-SQL, T-SQL Tuesday 7
Aaron Bertrand describes a few workarounds to a problem in Windows where an application won't respond to taskbar actions.
This week John Martin and I are representing SentryOne at SQLGrillen in Lingen, Germany. Here are my slides and samples.
June 2, 2017 | Aaron Bertrand | T-SQL, Community 0
Aaron Bertrand describes four minor updates to SentryOne Plan Explorer in the latest build, 11.0.116.
May 26, 2017 | Aaron Bertrand | Plan Explorer 0
Aaron Bertrand shares his slide decks and other materials from his presentations at SQLintersection in Orlando.
Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) recounts the way he implemented database changes in a distributed SQL Server system a decade ago.
Aaron Bertrand provides some details about the new look for SQLPerformance.com and some of the drivers behind the change.
May 8, 2017 | Aaron Bertrand | Community 0
Aaron Bertrand shares his slide decks and samples from his Friday sessions at SQLBits in Telford, UK.
April 7, 2017 | Aaron Bertrand | SQLBits 0
Aaron Bertrand explains the ups and downs of a cohesive, consolidated, version-agnostic Books Online for SQL Server.
February 28, 2017 | Aaron Bertrand | SQL Server, Documentation 0
For T-SQL Tuesday #87, Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) talks about two shiny new toys in SQL Server: STRING_SPLIT() and STRING_AGG().
February 14, 2017 | Aaron Bertrand | SQL Server, T-SQL Tuesday 0
For T-SQL Tuesday #86, Aaron Bertrand highlights a few of his favorite bugs and feature requests on Microsoft's improvement site, connect.microsoft.com.
January 10, 2017 | Aaron Bertrand | SQL Server, T-SQL Tuesday, Connect 0

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