The Bones of SQL - The Holiday Table

This second part to a previous article on Calendar table generation shows how to create a holiday table containing both fixed-date and variable-date holidays.

Bones of SQL – Grouping By User-Defined Calendar Periods

Although it is common to group by periods such as Week, Month, or Quarter, sometimes alternative periods are needed. This simple technique lets you split a year into periods with any number of days.

Bones of SQL - Practical Calendar Queries

After the first article created a Calendar table, learn how to use this in a practical sense with some common queries.

Bones of SQL - The Calendar Table

This article introduces the concept of the Calendar table to SQL newcomers and illustrates use of a few columns they might not have imagined.

Grant Fritchey 2016

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T-SQL: Why “It Depends”

Why does everyone use "it depends" as an answer to many T-SQL questions? Bob Hovious brings us a short example of how performance can change based on data loads for the same code.