Awesome new features in SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: IIF and CHOOSE functions
SQL Server 2011 “Denali” introduces two new features for flow control which may help you to keep your T-SQL cleaner than...
2011-08-02
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Danny Riebeek
- Interests: SQL Monitoring
- Website: https://www.sqltreeo.com
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly SQL Cursor types
T-SQL cursors are generally bad approach and are often misused. In today’s world of correlated subqueries, CTE’s, recursive CTE’s, ranking...
2011-07-30
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SQL Azure – simple description, part I.
I was studying SQL Azure parameters some time ago and found out that there are no materials which tell you...
2011-07-29
1,768 reads
T-SQL refactoring
Keeping your SQL objects’ naming rules during furious development is hard. New levels of information are added continuously, entities are...
2011-07-28
2,733 reads
Fastest row counting method
SELECT COUNT(*) is most common method (and exact) how to find out how many records is in table. There is...
2011-07-26
6,372 reads
Article: How to use temporary table in function
Steve Jones from voiceofthedba.com, editor on SQLServerCentral.com gave me an opportunity to publish humble article about workaround solution for using...
2011-07-21
495 reads
How to use temporary table in function
See a short and dirty example how to use temporary table in user defined function (UDF).
2011-07-21
24,654 reads
Partial name matching in SQL Server 2011 “Denali”
While playing with SQL Server 2011 “Denali”, I’ve accidentally found out that it has slightly enhanced intellisense in SSMS. There...
2011-07-21
1,381 reads
Custom folders SSMS Add-In slightly delayed
I am desperately trying to finalize this add-in and it is very very close. I was performing another testing on...
2011-07-17
540 reads
SQL Injection is still actual :)
Here are two samples showing that SQL Injection is still here and dangerous !!!
source:xkcd.com
This use case is especially insidious
2011-07-16
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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...
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Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers