SQL Puzzle – Prime Numbers
My goal here is to have something fun (and hopefully educational/thinky) (and yes, I did just make up the word...
2017-09-27
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My goal here is to have something fun (and hopefully educational/thinky) (and yes, I did just make up the word...
2017-09-27
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There are a fair number of options settings. ANSI_NULLS, ARITHABORT, QUOTED_IDENTIFIER, etc. Each session has its own set of configurations....
2017-09-25
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tl;dr; The uniquifier is used to make a non-unique key in a clustered index unique.
Uniquifier is a rather funny name,...
2017-09-22 (first published: 2017-09-18)
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I told you not to use NOLOCK even though I use it sometimes.I told you not to shrink databases, even...
2017-09-20
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Said no one ever. Well, maybe. I have had occasions where I needed a brief pause in the middle of...
2017-09-20 (first published: 2017-09-14)
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T-SQL Tuesday has rolled up on us yet again. This month it’s Rob Sewell’s (b/t) turn to host and picked...
2017-09-12
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A while back I did a post about creating an empty table using a SELECT statement. Basically doing something like...
2017-09-11 (first published: 2017-08-28)
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Kendra Little (b/t) reminded me of this fun little trick (with fairly important ramifications) in her latest quiz on logical...
2017-09-07
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Of all of the annoying parts of SSIS, the major version sensitivity has to be the most annoying. Let’s say...
2017-09-06 (first published: 2017-08-23)
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2017-09-06
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By Steve Jones
Here are the slides from my talk today: CI in Azure DevOps If you...
By Steve Jones
I got asked this question recently: I constantly see PostgreSQL on Microsoft slides, email,...
By Steve Jones
hickering – n. the habit of falling hard for whatever pretty new acquaintance happens...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Are We Dinosaurs?
Sample query reply appreciated Getting the following error: Conversion failed when converting the varchar...
For the last few weeks every time I get into SSMS 20.2 I am...
What happens with this code:
DECLARE @Iteration INT = 0; WHILE @Iteration < 10 SELECT CustomerName, CustomerStatus FROM dbo.Customer WHERE CustomerID > 3; SET @Iteration += 1;See possible answers