DATEDIFF vs. DATEADD
Let’s talk about the DATEDIFF vs. DATEADD functions in SQL Server. Each one performs a different task. The former calculates...
2017-01-25
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Let’s talk about the DATEDIFF vs. DATEADD functions in SQL Server. Each one performs a different task. The former calculates...
2017-01-25
9,933 reads
On November 9th I presented a session in the PASS Database Administration Virtual Chapter. The title of the session was...
2016-12-12
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Yes, it’s that time of the year again. It’s time for the annual PASS Summit. Just like every year, I...
2016-10-31
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Machine Learning is a very powerful technology used in the field of predictive analytics. As far as I see it,...
2016-10-20
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Yesterday I presented my session From XML to JSON as part of the 24 Hours of PASS online event. There...
2016-09-08
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SQL Server 2016 offers built-in support for JSON, in a similar way to the support offered for XML since SQL...
2016-09-04
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Last week I got a call from one of our clients. They issued an ALTER TABLE command in order to...
2016-08-22
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On July 25th Microsoft released the first cumulative update (#1) for SQL Server 2016. This is a good reason to...
2016-08-04
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About 3 years ago Matan Yungman contacted me and said he has an interesting proposition. We met and talked about...
2016-07-21
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This post is for T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Michael Swart (blog | twitter). This month’s topic is all about SQL Server 2016
I’ve been...
2016-06-14
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I have found that non-functional requirements (NFRs) can be hard to define for a...
By Kevin3NF
Can we normalize a couple of things? 1 – Trade Schools. Back in the...
Testing with AG on Linux with Cluster=NONE. it was all going ok and as...
Hi, I have two tables: one for headers with 9 fields and another for...
We're trying to understand how quick new versions of SQL server can be. Obviously...
Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers