Demystifying the use of CASE in an ORDER BY statement
Chuck Hoffman exposes the mysteries of getting CASE statements to work in dynamic ORDER BY statements.
2015-06-05 (first published: 2012-04-26)
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Chuck Hoffman
Selecting from hierarchies like Managers and Employees
Chuck Hoffman shows a technique using sets for selecting records from hierarchies such as Manager / Employee structures.
2012-05-03
9,641 reads
TSQL TestBits function for rapidly testing multiple switch settings
Are multiple binary switches becoming hard to manage? The TestBits function can help with that.
2012-04-09
4,215 reads
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Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers