Sql Saturday #83
Frikkie Bosch opened the day with a short keynote giving an overview of Denali, talking mostly from a marketing point...
2011-05-09
801 reads
Gail Shaw
- Interests: Computer Graphics, Aikido, Roleplaying
Indexing for ORs
All of the indexing strategy posts I’ve written in the past have been concerned with predicates combined with ANDs. That’s...
2011-05-03
1,008 reads
Meme Monday: I Got 99 SQL Problems And the Disk Ain’t One
From Tom LaRock’s latest idea…
For a change I’m not going to mention performance (well, not more than once anyway)...
2011-05-02
1,317 reads
To TOP or not to TOP an EXISTS
Earlier this year I had a look at a query pattern that I often see on forums and in production...
2011-04-05
5,750 reads
Statistics, row estimations and the ascending date column
SQL’s auto-updating statistics go a fair way to making SQL Server a self-tuning database engine and in many cases they...
2011-03-28
1,643 reads
Statistics, row estimations and the ascending date column
SQL’s auto-updating statistics go a fair way to making SQL Server a self-tuning database engine and in many cases they...
2011-03-22
2,067 reads
Q & A from 24 Hours of PASS session
Earlier this week I took part in the 24 Hours of PASS live webcast event. There were far more questions...
2011-03-18
701 reads
Full backups, the log chain and the COPY_ONLY option.
There have been a large number of posts made regarding the interaction between full database backups and the log chain...
2011-03-08
1,332 reads
And now for a completely inappropriate use of SQL Server
A while back I wrote up a short introductory overview of Genetic Algorithms. Just for the shear, absolute fun of...
2011-02-28
2,838 reads
And now for a completely inappropriate use of SQL Server
A while back I wrote up a short introductory overview of Genetic Algorithms. Just for the shear, absolute fun of...
2011-02-22
1,576 reads
Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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Creating JSON II
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
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