Jared Westover

Jared Westover
Jared Westover is a passionate technology specialist at Crowe, helping to build data solutions. For the past two decades, he has focused on SQL Server, Azure, Power BI, and Oracle. Besides writing for MSSQLTips.com, he has published 12 Pluralsight courses about SQL Server and Reporting Services. Jared enjoys reading and spending time with his wife and three sons when he's not trying to make queries go faster.

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Jared Westover (@westoverjared) is a SQL Server specialist with nearly two decades of industry experience. He is currently a software architect at Crowe and an author at Pluralsight. He also is the primary contributor at the blog sqlhabits.com.
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Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure SQL Managed Instance vs. Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Managed Instance Migrate to an Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure SQL Managed Instance Provision a Free Azure SQL Managed Instance Step by Step
Backup SQL Server Database Snapshots for Rapid Restores
Change Data Capture Tracking SQL Server Data Change History with Triggers versus Temporal Tables
Common Table Expressions Exploring a Recursive Common Table Expression in SQL Server with Examples
Common Table Expressions Troubleshoot Chained SQL Server CTE
Compression Compressing Big Static SQL Server Tables
Constraints Performance Impact of SQL Server Check Constraints
Database Administration Limit Cost Threshold for Parallelism for Small SQL Queries
Database Design Build Polymorphic Associations in SQL Server with Foreign Keys
Database Design Calculate SQL Server Page Counts for Tables, Indexes and Objects
Database Design SQL Server Storage Modes - Choosing Rowstore or Columnstore
Database Design SQL Server Table Design Guidelines - Data Types, Designing for Deletes and Primary Keys
Dates Generate Random Dates in T-SQL
Error Handling Raising Exceptions and Error Handling with SQL Server THROW
Error Handling SQL RAISERROR to Better Handle Errors
Fragmentation and Index Maintenance SQL Server Fragmentation Impact with Modern Hardware
Functions System Convert Problematic Data in SQL Server
Functions System Performance Impacts of SELECT COUNT(*) in SQL Server
Functions System SQL Server ROW_NUMBER for Ranking Rows
Indexing Add Indexes to Improve SQL DELETE Performance
Indexing Evaluating SQL Server Filtered Indexes in a Multi Table SQL Join
Indexing Impact of Offline SQL Server Index Rebuilds
Indexing Overlooked Reason SQL Server Ignores Your Filtered Indexes
Indexing Prevent Duplicate Records in SQL using Filtered Index
Indexing SQL Server Indexes to Improve Query Performance
Indexing SQL Server Indexes with Key and Non-Key Columns as Covering Indexes to improve Performance
Indexing SQL Server Ordered Columnstore Indexes for Data Aggregation in Data Warehouses
Indexing Unraveling the Tuple Mover for SQL Server Columnstore Indexes
Locking and Blocking Reduce SQL Server Blocking with READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT
Microsoft Fabric Convert Excel Workbooks to CSV with Microsoft Fabric
Monitoring Monitor SQL Server Performance and Daily Operations with dbWatch
Performance Tuning Getting Started with SqlQueryStress for SQL Server Load Testing
Performance Tuning Parameter Substitution in SQLQueryStress for SQL Server Performance Tuning
Performance Tuning Raising the Cost Threshold for Parallelism (CTFP) Affects SQL Server Missing Indexes
Performance Tuning SQL Local Variables and Performance Issues
Performance Tuning Uncover SQL Server Missing Indexes
Power BI DAX CASE Statement Functionality with IF, SWITCH and SWITCH True
Stored Procedures SQL Server Temporary Stored Procedures
Stored Procedures Troubleshoot SQL Server Stored Procedure Execution Problems with Debug Flag
Temp Tables Mastering SQL Server Local and Global Temporary Tables
Transactions Rethinking SQL Explicit Transactions
TSQL Calculate a Moving Average with T-SQL Windowing Functions
TSQL Combine Multiple Columns Performance Comparison - SQL UNPIVOT, UNION ALL vs CROSS APPLY
TSQL Compare Data from Two SQL Server Tables
TSQL Find Mismatched Data between SQL Server Tables using LEFT JOIN, EXCEPT, NOT IN and NOT EXISTS
TSQL Many Uses of SQL CASE Expression in a JOIN Clause
TSQL Performance Considerations with SQL MERGE vs INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
TSQL Replace a SQL WHILE Loop with Set Based Logic in T-SQL
TSQL Replace SQL Cursors with Set Based Operations Including OUTPUT and MERGE
TSQL REPLACE versus TRANSLATE for SQL Server Text Data Manipulation
TSQL Return TOP (N) Rows using APPLY or ROW_NUMBER() in SQL Server
TSQL SQL Pivot Like a Pro
TSQL SQL String Functions - TRIM, LTRIM, RTRIM, REPLACE, STUFF, CHARINDEX and TRANSLATE
TSQL Understanding SQL Ranking Functions ROW_NUMBER(), RANK(), DENSE_RANK() and NTILE()
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Performance Tuning Performance Testing SQL Queries with SqlQueryStress
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