We have got some boxes and balls. Our job is to put balls into those boxes. But, wait a second! The balls should be filled into the boxes based on some rules and preferences configured by the user. Here are the rules.
2010-01-28
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The time has come again for the UK’s biggest conference for .NET developers and SQL Server professionals. Read the press release about this years DevWeek.
2010-01-27
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The PASS DBA VC hosts this session today that will focus on helping to choose between using a virtualization, instance, or database consolidation option. We will highlight a few of the key areas to consider as well as some of the important differentiators to keep in mind. We will provide a decision tree to help guide administrators through the process of selecting a consolidation option.
2010-01-27
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Coming on Jan 30, to the Boston area, be sure to attend this SQL Saturday if you are nearby.
2010-01-27 (first published: 2010-01-20)
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2010-01-26
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This is a deep dive developer session that explores error handling in SQL Server. The session focuses on core error handling areas such as understandign the anatomy of errors, detecting errors in TSQL and best practices for error handling and defensive programming in Microsoft SQL Server. tuesday, 1/26, 8:00am EST
2010-01-26 (first published: 2010-01-21)
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If you are in the area, come to this great one day training event in Tampa, FL.
2010-01-19
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A new user group in Sweden. Read for more details.
2010-01-13
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Here is a challenge that takes you away from those repetitive boring type of queries that you write over and over again, several times a day. All of us, the database people, are familiar with thinking in set based manner as well as row by row style. Here is something that is very interesting where you might need to process records in a 'three-line-at-a-time' fashion.
2010-01-11
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Can you generate repeating digits in a Fibonacci series?
2009-12-28
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By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
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We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers