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Kathi Kellenberger
Kathi Kellenberger is a Data Platform Technology Specialist with Microsoft in St. Louis. Before joining Microsoft she was a SQL Server MVP and database administrator for Bryan Cave LLP, a law firm headquartered in St. Louis, MO. She is author of "Beginning T-SQL 2008" (Apress 2009) and co-author of "Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services" (Wrox 2006) and contributer to "SQL Server MVP Deep Dives" (Manning 2009). Kathi enjoys speaking and writing about SQL Server and teaches the occasional SQL Server class. When she is not busy working with SQL Server, you might find her singing at the local karaoke bar or climbing the stairs in tall buildings.

SSN Matching Speed Phreakery

by Kathi Kellenberger | 05 August 2010 |

4 comments |

On Ask.SQLServerCentral.com, a group of people interested in experimenting with heavily optimised SQL techniques try them out on a problem, using reasonbly large amounts of data. They aren't so interested in explaining the techniques, so Kathi continues on her... Read more...

Set-based Speed Phreakery: The FIFO Stock Inventory SQL Problem

by Kathi Kellenberger | 25 May 2010 |

8 comments |

The SQL Speed Freak Challenge is a no-holds-barred competition to find the fastest way in SQL Server to perform a real-life database task. It is the programming equivalent of drag racing, but without the commentary box. Kathi has stepped in to explain what... Read more...

Writing Efficient SQL: Set-Based Speed Phreakery

by Kathi Kellenberger | 04 February 2010 |

47 comments |

Phil Factor's SQL Speed Phreak challenge is an event where coders battle to produce the fastest code to solve a common reporting problem on large data sets. It isn't that easy on the spectators, since the programmers don't score extra points for commenting their... Read more...

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