Why All The Fuzz?
I really must thank Steve for his editorial on FizzBuzz. It seemed like a really good topic to do some...
2010-02-23
781 reads
SQL RNNR
I’m givin’ ‘er all she’s got!
Or am I?
As I proceed down the path on a consolidation project, I have taken time to pause and ponder...
2010-02-21
657 reads
May I help you?
With the Vancouver games underway, I have been reflecting on the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Those were the greatest winter...
2010-02-18
817 reads
DBA.Sleep(8hrs)
I have been pondering recently what helps me to sleep at night. Or, conversely, what prevents me from sleeping at...
2010-02-17
1,312 reads
In Vs. Inner Join
This is tightly related to another of my forays into tuning some slowly/poorly performing processes. This process came across my...
2010-02-16
866 reads
PayPeriod II
I recently blogged about a solution I had decided to use in order to solve a problem related to PayPeriod...
2010-02-14
787 reads
Relationships
This month Rob Farley is hosting TSQL-Tuesday #3. The topic is Relationships and he has left it wide open for...
2010-02-09
869 reads
Log is Filling Up
Today I ran across Paul Randal’s latest post showing how to find open transactions and such. This is a nice...
2010-02-05
522 reads
Key Discovery III
In Part I and Part II of the series, I discussed documenting and discovering Primary Keys and Clustered Indexes. In...
2010-02-02
1,688 reads
Key Discovery III
Recursively traverse system views to build a Hierarchical Perspective into the database.
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Question of the Day
A Strange Choice
What is returned when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
CREATE TABLE CatIndex ( indexval VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.CatIndex (indexval) VALUES ('1'), ('2'), ('3') GO SELECT CHOOSE(indexval, cast('2025-01-01' AS DATE), CAST('2025-02-01' AS DATE), CAST('2025-03-01' AS DATE)) FROM dbo.CatIndex AS ciSee possible answers