GO statement breaks SSIS Execute SQL Task
I have lost an hour today trying to find a bug in my SSIS package, and it was so small...
2011-11-30
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NOT IN or IN?
I have been having a hard time believing my eyes when I noticed that these queries give different results:
1. select...
2011-09-27
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MDX Performance - burdens of IIF
I used to think naively that IIF is an innocent little function that can only do good and help me...
2011-02-16
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MDX Performance - burdens of IIF
I used to think naively that IIF is an innocent little function that can only do good and help me...
2011-02-11
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PARTITION BY clause works incorrectly when in nested select over large volumes of data
I have been witnessing a very strange behaviour of ROW_NUMBER() PARTITION BY clause in complex join and nested select or...
2010-11-03
2,753 reads
SSRS axe work: How to use fields from different Datasets in the same field Expression and Grouping in Report Builder 2.0?
Last week I was puzzled by one of my colleagues - he needed help in creating a Report Builder 2.0 SSRS...
2010-10-07
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SQL or MDX query trace in SSRS - trick of imagination or a real thing?
I sometimes have ghost memories - I remember some things that had never in fact happened. And I was wondering if ...
2010-09-03
2,456 reads
SQL or MDX query trace in SSRS - trick of imagination or a real thing?
I sometimes have ghost memories - I remember some things that had never in fact happened. And I was wondering if ...
2010-08-30
3,310 reads
SSRS Subscriptions failure - should we always listen to our DBA's?
During the configuration of one of the SSRS instances I have stumbled upon a problem with SSRS Subscription. Subscriptions were...
2010-08-04
1,013 reads
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Vectors in SQL Server 2025
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Odd Sequences
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Question of the Day
Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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