Fun with Outer Joins
Learn how an outer join works and how you can use it in your applications to find the results you need when matching data isn't in all your tables.
2014-01-17 (first published: 2012-09-10)
23,275 reads
Kenneth Fisher
sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V4.0
These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each sp returns three data...
2014-01-15
898 reads
Transactions: Rolling back a transaction inside a stored procedure.
So over the last couple of posts I’ve talked about the fact that the ROLLBACK command will roll back an...
2014-01-13 (first published: 2014-01-06)
7,543 reads
Transactions: What are they?
I’ve done a couple of posts now talking about how rolling back a transaction works. I thought this time I...
2014-01-08
1,403 reads
Happy new year!
Happy New Years! It’s the first day of the year and it’s a day known for setting goals. I had...
2014-01-01
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The 12 days after release
On the first day after release my developer gave to me
a performance problem on a crucial query
On the second day...
2013-12-24
788 reads
SSMS Shortcuts and more
I went and voted for #tribalawards and when I was finished they offer you links to 6 different free PDFs....
2013-12-23
684 reads
Transactions: Rolling back part of a transaction.
In my previous post I mentioned the fact that the ROLLBACK command rolls back the entire transaction all the way...
2013-12-19
669 reads
Transactions: Rolling back a nested transaction
Transactions are great and wonderful things. They make sure that our work stays atomic, consistent, isolated and durable (yes ACID)....
2013-12-17
1,523 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #49: Wait for it
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again and this time it’s being hosted by the SQL Soldier. He’s picked the subject of Waits....
2013-12-10
854 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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