CHECKSUM vs HashBytes
Hashing can be useful in Data Warehousing as well It can give you the ability to break large problems into...
2012-02-01
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Hashing can be useful in Data Warehousing as well It can give you the ability to break large problems into...
2012-02-01
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One of the most exciting features in SQL Server 2012 is the introduction of the Tabular Model. The Tabular model...
2012-01-31
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As I mentioned in a pervious post Master Data Services for SQL 2012 is a huge improvement over the SQL...
2012-01-19
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In my years as a BI Professional I have seen many ETL Frameworks. They range from homegrown internal solution to...
2012-01-04
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Microsoft is working on the next round of certification exams for SQL Server 2012. So now is the best time...
2011-12-28
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I was recently asked to provide some performance tuning recommendations for an ETL process that extracts data from Oracle using...
2011-12-21
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Data mining techniques can be used in virtually all business applications, answering various types of businesses questions. In truth, given...
2011-12-14
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I recently gave a couple of presentations about the new Business Intelligence features in SQL Server 2008 R2. Here are...
2011-11-11
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Unary Operator and Aggregating over time
In my last post I discussed how to arrange all of the GLs into a...
2011-11-03
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Part 1 – Parent Child Hierarchies and Pseudo GL Accounts
This post is born out of some real life lessons that I...
2011-10-26
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By Steve Jones
I had mentioned some new T-SQL functions for SQL Server 2022 and a commenter...
This post comes off the back of my last, where I looked at issues...
By Vinay Thakur
As this is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) World, things are changing. We can see that...
In today’s connected world, a reliable network is the backbone of any successful business....
A while into install I get a Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server....
Comments posted to this topic are about the item More Funny SELECTs
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SELECT ( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh WHERE soh.OrderDate > '01/01/2011' AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2012') AS OrdersIn2000 , ( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh WHERE soh.OrderDate > '01/01/2012' AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2013') AS OrdersIn2001 , ( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh WHERE soh.OrderDate > '01/01/2013' AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2014') AS OrdersIn2002; GOSee possible answers