Josef Richberg

A SQL practitioner for over 16 years specializing in performance & tuning. I currently work for Harpercollins Publishers designing, enhancing, and improving, the sql experience for many of the data warehouse applications. I have been heavily involved in designing and implementing SSIS packages. I am the '2009 Exceptional DBA' awards winner.

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04 February 2010
04 February 2010

Simple Query tuning with STATISTICS IO and Execution plans

A great deal can be gleaned from the use of the STATISTICS IO and the execution plan, when you are checking that a query is performing properly. Josef Richberg, the current holder of the 'Exceptional DBA' award, explains how an apparently draconian IT policy turns out to be a useful ways of ensuring that Stored Procedures are carefully checked for performance before they are released… Read more