The SQLServerCentral.com Party
Get the details, including the room (607) for our party in Denver on September 18th, 2007. And by the way, there's a conference immediately following.
2007-09-04
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Press Release
A Freeware offer for SQLServerCentral.com Members
Highwire Development is offering a free version of their RAAS product to SQLServerCentral.com members.
2007-08-31
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SQLBits Community Day
If you're in the UK in October, you might want to sign up for the SQLBits Community day put on by MVP Simon Sabin.
2007-08-27
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Ten Reasons to Attend the PASS Summit
Not the ones you think, but all good reasons to come to Denver. Read on for a bit of humor and find out how to come to the SQLServerCentral.com party!
2007-08-24 (first published: 2007-08-08)
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Raffle Winners and a Thank You
Here are the winners of our raffle and we should be sending out prizes soon. A thanks as well from Katie's father to all of you.
2007-08-20
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Katie's Raffle
We've had more prizes donated for the raffle to raise money for Katie. See what you can win and support an IT family in need.
2007-08-07
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2007-08-02
1,855 reads
To Wrap or Not to Wrap
It's not a string manipulation article in T-SQL, but it is SQL Server related. Check out what Steve Jones has in store for the PASS 2007 Summit for the SQLServerCentral.com community..
2007-07-26
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Katie
Most of us have been very lucky in life and SQLServerCentral.com is asking for your support in helping a fellow family in IT with this raffle.
2007-07-12
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SQL Server 2008 Launch Date
Yesterday at it's Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft announced the launch date for SQL Server 2008 along with Windows 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.
2007-07-11
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
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