Itzik Ben-Gan adds another post to his series on T-SQL pitfalls and best practices series, treating complications and limitations of the PIVOT and UNPIVOT operators.
Itzik Ben-Gan asks you to invest in SQL Server's future by voting for Row Pattern Recognition, a potential T-SQL syntax extension he deems the next step in the evolution of window functions.
Paul White explains why the IGNORE_DUP_KEY index option on a clustered index can result in much poorer performance than for a nonclustered unique index.