Choosing the right professional
I’m writing this blog post from my bed, you may think that’s a little too much information there is a...
2012-01-11
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Blog Posts
Houston Area SQL Server User Group Presentation
Thanks for everyone who attended my presentation “How To Make a LOT More Money as a Consultant” at HASSUG.
Here is...
2012-01-11
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Normalizing Your Database
If you’ve been working with databases for any length of time, you have heard the term normalization.
Normalization is the process...
2012-01-11 (first published: 2012-01-06)
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SQL Server – Backup to NUL trick - read throughput
A neat test for read speed backup throughput is to use the Backup to NUL .
NUL is a special “file”. It's...
2012-01-11
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System Stored Procedures
I've been using 4 alerts for corruption now for about 2 years for Errors 823, 824, 825 and 9100. Basically...
2012-01-11
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Video/Voice conferencing and Microsoft Lync
Since I work mostly from home, video/voice conferencing and IM are of major importance to me, and using the right...
2012-01-11
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FIRST_VALUE() Analytic Function–SQL Server 2012
Given a customer table:
CREATE TABLE Customers
(CustId INT, OrderDate DATE, OrderAmount MONEY) ;
INSERT Customers VALUES
(1, ’2011-12-03', 12500)
, (1, ’2011-10-07', 15000)
, (1,...
2012-01-10
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How safe are your secrets?
We’ve all have service accounts, application accounts, sysadmin and domain admin accounts and other privileged shared accounts on our systems....
2012-01-10
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January 2012 Speaking Events
It has been a quiet past few months while my family has adjusted to having
two new additions (twins!), but...
2012-01-10
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Making Schema Changes in a Replication Topology
I've noticed in the forums there have been a number of people inquiring about making schema changes in a replication...
2012-01-10
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Blogs
Free webinar – Tackling the Gaps and Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions
I’m hosting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at the 19th of December 2024, 6PM...
Counting Groups with Window Functions: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I looked at row_number() in a previous post. Now I want to build on...
The query processor ran out of internal resources and could not produce a query plan – When You’ve Managed to Confuse SQL With a Crazy IN Clause.
Recently I received a cry for help over Teams. The issue was that an...
Forums
How to merge two tables with unlike fields
How to merge two tables with unlike fields. I have two table with one...
Visual Studio 22 / SSIS Project / (Project) Connection problem
Hello, First of all, I find it odd/annoying that I can't exclude a Project...
How to determine if a DB is currently being used
Hi - I'm looking for advice regarding the best & quickest way to establish...
Question of the Day
The LAGging NULL
I have this data in a SQL Server 2022 table:
player yearid team HR Alex Rodriguez 2012 NYY 18 Alex Rodriguez 2013 NYY 7 Alex Rodriguez 2014 NYY NULL Alex Rodriguez 2015 NYY 12 Alex Rodriguez 2016 NYY 9If I run this code, what are the results returned in the hrgrowth column?
SELECT player , yearid , hr , hr - LAG (hr, 1, 0) IGNORE NULLS OVER (ORDER BY yearid) AS hrgrowth FROM dbo.playerstats;See possible answers