Welcome to the fascinating world of SQL window functions! Today, we'll explore in detail: RANK() and DENSE_RANK().
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I'm writing this sitting at the PASS Data Community Summit. It's been a fantastic event. I gave a community session on Azure DevOps. I was able to help Redgate launch a new product. I've received a bunch of hugs from VERY dear old friends. I've met a ton of people. It's been great. Allow me […]
Bi-week... semi-week... fortnight... "every two weeks" Recently on the SQL Community Slack group, someone asked if there was a way to schedule a backup to run on alternate weeks. I'm not exactly sure why (maybe they wanted to run full and differential backups on alternating weeks), but yes, we can do that. In part one […]
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I want to enable two trace flags, 4199 and 4137, for a single query. How should I do this:
-- A SELECT a.AddressID , a.AddressLine1 , a.AddressLine2 , a.City , a.StateProvinceID , a.PostalCode , p.FirstName , p.LastName FROM Person.Address a INNER JOIN person.Person AS p ON p.rowguid = a.rowguid WHERE City = 'SEATTLE' AND PostalCode = 98104 OPTION (QUERYTRACEON 4199, 4137); -- B SELECT a.AddressID , a.AddressLine1 , a.AddressLine2 , a.City , a.StateProvinceID , a.PostalCode , p.FirstName , p.LastName FROM Person.Address a INNER JOIN person.Person AS p ON p.rowguid = a.rowguid WHERE City = 'SEATTLE' AND PostalCode = 98104 OPTION (QUERYTRACEON 4199, QUERYTRACEON 4137); -- C SELECT a.AddressID , a.AddressLine1 , a.AddressLine2 , a.City , a.StateProvinceID , a.PostalCode , p.FirstName , p.LastName FROM Person.Address a INNER JOIN person.Person AS p ON p.rowguid = a.rowguid WHERE City = 'SEATTLE' AND PostalCode = 98104 OPTION (QUERYTRACEON 4199), (QUERYTRACEON 4137);See possible answers