T-SQL: CASE Statement
This is a companion piece to the MidnightDBA video T-SQL: CASE Statement.
In short, a CASE statement is a simplified set...
2010-12-28
2,711 reads
Jen McCown
PASS Summit Speaker Evals – THE ANALYSIS
Rule: No Sushi with Adam within 24 hours of session
I’m inspired by Brent Ozar‘s and Andy Leonard‘s sharing of their PASS...
2010-12-23
778 reads
RTFM365, Week 2 (AND week in review)
Hooboy…the super-structured format of the first two RTFM365 posts just isn’t sustainable for me. I’m going to have to go...
2010-12-20
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T-SQL Tuesday #13–A Business Walks Into a Bar….
Hello and welcome to the December 2010 edition of T-SQL Tuesday. This month’s host is Steve Jones (blog|twitter) of SQLServerCentral,...
2010-12-14
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All Things Awesome and MidnightDBA-y – 12/9/2010
Here’s the rundown of what we were up to last week
Friday night at 11pm CST we present another wildly appealing...
2010-12-13
810 reads
RTFM365, Week 1
Big lessons learned this week: 1, its’ always worthwhile to go back and reread the basics. 2, sys.sp_trace_create option 4 doesn’t...
2010-12-10
502 reads
Spotlight: Jes Borland
It’s been a few months…time for another Spotlight!
Just to catch you up, occasionally someone in the SQL community – usually someone...
2010-12-09
1,409 reads
24HOP Needs Women!
“Next 24 Hours of PASS on March 15-16 2011, celebrating Women’s History Month with 24 female speakers!”
Thus goes the announcement on...
2010-12-08
1,206 reads
24HOP Needs Women!
“Next 24 Hours of PASS on March 15-16 2011, celebrating Women’s History Month with 24 female speakers!”
Thus goes the announcement on...
2010-12-07
810 reads
Tip: Schema Qualify Objects in SPs
“Eat your broccoli.”
“Wear your gloves.”
“Schema qualify your objects.”
Your Mom wasn’t kidding, and she always gave the best advice. We’ve already...
2010-12-06
1,708 reads
Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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