Gaps and Islands Across Date Ranges
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In a traditional gaps and islands problem, the goal is to identify groups of continuous data sequences (islands) and groups of data where the...
2019-03-12
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Bert Wagner
COUNT, DISTINCT, and NULLs
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One thing I see fairly often (and am occasionally guilty of myself) is using COUNT(DISTINCT)...
2019-03-05 (first published: 2019-02-19)
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Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time
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AT TIME ZONE is great because it makes it easy to perform daylight saving time and time zone conversions in our queries.
However, when using AT...
2019-03-05
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Why make?
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #111 prompt by Andy Leonard. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2019-03-01 (first published: 2019-02-12)
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Searching Complex JSON Data
Watch this week’s video on YouTubeComputed column indexes make querying JSON data fast and efficient, especially when the schema of...
2019-02-26
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Searching Complex JSON Data
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Computed column indexes make querying JSON data fast and efficient, especially when the schema of the JSON data is the same throughout a table.
It's...
2019-02-26
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COUNT, DISTINCT, and NULLs
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One thing I see fairly often (and am occasionally guilty of myself) is using COUNT(DISTINCT) and DISTINCT interchangeably to get an idea of the...
2019-02-19
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Parsing HTML in SQL Server
Recently I was asked how to parse text out of an HTML fragment stored in SQL Server.
Over the next few...
2019-02-12
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Parsing HTML in SQL Server
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Recently I was asked how to parse text out of an HTML fragment stored in SQL Server.
Over the next few seconds my brain processed...
2019-02-12
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Why make?
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #111 prompt by Andy Leonard. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
2019-02-12
Blogs
Microsoft Purview GA menu’s
By James Serra
The new data governance features in Microsoft Purview are now being made generally available...
Connect to Power BI as a Guest User in another Tenant
Sometimes your Microsoft Entra ID account (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is added...
Parsing EXE Output in PowerShell
By Steve Jones
I saw a post internally that asked this question: Anyone have a handy powershell...
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GIT Configuration and Automated Release for Azure Data Factory
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Case or LOOKUP Table on Common but simplistic values
NOTE: I get that this may be too broad a question to answer and...
Question of the Day
Concat Addition
What is the result of this code?
SELECT CONCAT(1, 2, 3) + 4See possible answers