Trusting STRING_SPLIT() order in Azure SQL Database
Learn about the changes to the STRING_SPLIT function in Azure SQL Database that allows you to specify ordinal position of the output.
2021-12-03
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On-Demand: 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps webinar
Redgate is a proud sponsor of this year’s Accelerate State of DevOps Report, by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team at Google Cloud. Watch our lastest webinar to find out how the future of DevOps will effect you.
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SQL Server RETURN and OUTPUT Clause in Stored Procedures
In this article we look how to use RETURN and OUTPUT in a SQL Server stored procedure to get a return value after execution.
2021-12-01
Creating Markdown Formatted Text for Results from T-SQL
Markdown documents are becoming increasingly more popular and relevant with the emergence of notebooks. Markdown is a markup language for creating formatted text. It is widely used in tools for collaboration, tools for creating documentation and notebooks. Formatting is easy to understand, readable, simple to adopt, and agnostic. I can use a markdown document on […]
2021-11-29
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Leading-Edge NoSQL Drivers for NoSQL Analytics and Integration
NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, are an increasingly important component of enterprise data strategy, handling high-volume, scalable, and agile data management. As organizations adopt emerging NoSQL solutions, there is high demand to integrate these data sources with existing infrastructure and familiar tools. Standards-based data access facilitates your expansion into MongoDB by leveraging existing skills using […]
2021-11-29
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Monitoring Your Hybrid Environment with Redgate
Join this Microsoft hosted webinar to hear from Microsoft MVP and Redgate Advocate, Grant Fritchey to learn more about monitoring hybrid database environments, as part of their Azure Series.
2021-11-29
What is Power Query?
In this tip we'll introduce you to Power Query, the self-service data preparation tool from the Power BI family
2021-11-29
CData AWS Glue Connector for Salesforce Deployment Guide
AWS Glue is an ETL service from Amazon that enables you to prepare and load your data for storage and analytics. With Glue Studio, you can create no-code and low-code ETL jobs that work with data through CData Glue Connectors. In this article, we walk through configuring the CData Glue Connector for Salesforce to create and […]
2021-11-26
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How to filter non-existing records in SQL
Introduction Developing predefined reports in addition to all the ad-hoc queries have been a part of my daily activities. Often I find my stakeholders asking me to prepare reports in which they want to know something that has never happened. It might sound strange, but yeah, that's what their point of concern is all about. […]
2021-11-26 (first published: 2019-11-04)
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A Q&A with Troy Hunt: What will you learn?
We really enjoyed the insightful, intelligent answers Troy gave to Steve Jones’s questions and invite you to enjoy the fascinating conversation in the webinar which is now available on-demand.
2021-11-26
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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