The curious case of CHAR(0)
Over the years I’ve seen quite a few strange things with SQL Server. This one may not have been the ... Continue reading
2019-11-25 (first published: 2019-11-14)
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Kenneth Fisher
What the ???? T-SQL Tuesday #120
Hey, it’s T-SQL Tuesday again! I almost forgot about it what with Summit and all. Wayne Sheffield (blog|twitter) is our ... Continue reading
2019-11-21 (first published: 2019-11-12)
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DBA Myths: The system sessions are the ones with a session_id 50 or less
Anecdotally any session_id that’s 50 or less is going to be a system session and anything over 50 will be ... Continue reading
2019-11-18
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Pass Summit 2019 Keynote Day 2
I’m blogging they Keynote! One of my bucket list things has always to live blog a keynote at Pass Summit ... Continue reading
2019-11-07
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That slippery slope
We need to have processes and rules. They are important to any business. That said, exceptions are also going to ... Continue reading
2019-11-07 (first published: 2019-10-30)
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Volunteers
This week is the PASS Summit and it has me thinking about all of the amazing work done in our ... Continue reading
2019-11-06
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SQL Homework – November 2019 – SSMS built in reports
Time for some homework again. I know Pass Summit is this week so you may be a bit busy but ... Continue reading
2019-11-04
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#PowershellBasics: Get-Help -Online
One of the other things I learned from the Powershell class I’m taking this week is that there is an ... Continue reading
2019-11-01 (first published: 2019-10-21)
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#PowershellBasics: The GetType() and GetTypeCode() methods
I’m a DBA. Data types are kind of important to me. I mean I know they are important to developers ... Continue reading
2019-10-28
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#PowershellBasics: Multiple run spaces in ISE
As you know from the last few posts, I’m in a class on Powershell. One of the first things we ... Continue reading
2019-10-23 (first published: 2019-10-16)
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Blogs
Simple Talks Episode 9–Data masking and subsetting
By Steve Jones
The episode on data masking and subetting is out. You can see it here:...
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Avoid Perfect for Good Enough
By Brian Kelley
I'm listening to Effortless by Greg McKeon (link to author's page) through Audible.com. He...
Book Review – Humanizing Data Strategy by Tiankai Feng
This book was making its rounds on social media, and the concept seems interesting...
Forums
Does SSRS Report with Stored Procedure execute SQL string?
I declare @Where based on the input parameter in the stored procedure. Set @SQL...
SQL Server Constrained Delegation
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Question of the Day
Comparing Images
I am building an ETL process between these tables in SQL Server 2022 set to 160 compatibility level:
CREATE TABLE Image_Staging ( imageid INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT Image_StagingPK PRIMARY KEY , imagestatus TINYINT , imagebinary IMAGE); GO CREATE TABLE Images ( imageid INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ImagesPK PRIMARY KEY , imagestatus TINYINT , imagemodified DATETIME , imagebinary IMAGE); GOI want to run this query to check if the images already loaded exist. This will help me decide if I need to insert or update an image. What happens with this query?
SELECT i.imageid
FROM
dbo.Image_Staging AS ist
INNER JOIN dbo.Images AS i
ON ist.imagebinary = i.imagebinary; See possible answers