Free SQL Training: Dive into Databases This December!
Want to learn SQL and get some real practice this December? Check out the Basic SQL Practice: A Store course – it's totally free for the entire month! This...
2024-12-14
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Blog Posts
A New Word: Dolonia
dolonia – n. a state of unease prompted by people who seem to like you too much, which makes you wonder if they must have you confused with someone...
2024-12-13
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Cloudbrew 2024 – Slides
You can find the slides for the session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform in this GitHub repo.
The post Cloudbrew 2024 – Slides first appeared...
2024-12-13
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FIRST_VALUE vs. Min: #SQLNewBlogger
I had mentioned some new T-SQL functions for SQL Server 2022 and a commenter asked about the difference between Min() and First_value. This post looks at a few cases....
2024-12-13 (first published: 2024-12-04)
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Trace Flag 3625 Follow Up
Several months ago, I discussed my customer’s intention to enable trace flag 3625. Since that time, we have observed an intriguing phenomenon when encountering a login failure. To demonstrate...
2024-12-13 (first published: 2024-12-10)
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AI Helping with an API
Can an AI help me with some database API work? Let’s see. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. The Scenario One of the things...
2024-12-11
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Explicitly Defining Values in an IN Clause VS Putting Them into a Temp Table and Use a Semi-Join
This post comes off the back of my last, where I looked at issues caused by explicitly declaring a large number of values in an IN clause. The query...
2024-12-11 (first published: 2024-12-04)
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Lukáš Karlovský: I got the green light from management and built Fabric specialization from scratch
The post Lukáš Karlovský: I got the green light from management and built Fabric specialization from scratch appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.
2024-12-11 (first published: 2024-12-05)
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Grinding Away: Brent Ozar
Brent Ozar is a very successful DBA/consultant/speaker/business owner in the data platform space. Many of you have likely seen him speak, read his blog, used his sp_Blitz script, or...
2024-12-10 (first published: 2024-12-09)
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Top 5 Advanced SQL Courses for 2025 (Must-Know)
Want to seriously boost your data skills? Mastering advanced SQL is the key, whether you're in data analysis, data science, or any field that uses data. Trust me, it's...
2024-12-10
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Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Speaking
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
Top 5 Advanced SQL Courses for 2025 (Must-Know)
Want to seriously boost your data skills? Mastering advanced SQL is the key, whether...
My 2024 in Data: Travels
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
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Question of the Day
Function Defaults
I have created this function in SQL Server 2022:
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.AddInt (@one INT, @two INT = 1) RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
RETURN @one + @two
END
How can I call this and invoke the default value for @two? See possible answers