My Interview at Data Platform Geeks 2017
Dear All, Earlier this year in August, I had the privilege of speaking at Data Platform Summit 2017 at Bangalore. As always a terrific experience to hangout, interact and...
2017-12-23
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Nagaraj Venkatesan
My Interview at Data Platform Geeks 2017
Dear All, Earlier this year in August, I had the privilege of speaking at Data Platform Summit 2017 at Bangalore. As always a terrific experience to hangout, interact and...
2017-12-23
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Data Channel Interview - 09 - Mr.Madhivanan on Best Practices in TSQL Programming
Dear All,
Very happy to share the 9th interview of #DataChannel. Mr.Madhivanan Ramachandran, 10 time Microsoft MVP Award winner and a...
2017-12-02
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Data Channel Interview - 09 - Mr.Madhivanan on Best Practices in TSQL Programming
Dear All,Very happy to share the 9th interview of #DataChannel. Mr.Madhivanan Ramachandran, 10 time Microsoft MVP Award winner and a Data Platform expert from India discusses "Best Practices for...
2017-12-02
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Data Channel Interview - 09 - Mr.Madhivanan on Best Practices in TSQL Programming
Dear All,Very happy to share the 9th interview of #DataChannel. Mr.Madhivanan Ramachandran, 10 time Microsoft MVP Award winner and a Data Platform expert from India discusses "Best Practices for...
2017-12-02
13 reads
Adaptive Query Processing and Automatic Tuning - Adaptive Joins - 2
Continuing from the introduction written over here, let’s look at one of the aspects of Adaptive Query Processing which is...
2017-11-29
738 reads
Adaptive Query Processing and Automatic Tuning - Adaptive Joins - 2
Continuing from the introduction written over here, let’s look at one of the aspects of Adaptive Query Processing which is Adaptive Joins.Before we start Adaptive Joins, SQL Server's Query...
2017-11-29
73 reads
Adaptive Query Processing and Automatic Tuning - Adaptive Joins - 2
Continuing from the introduction written over here, let’s look at one of the aspects of Adaptive Query Processing which is Adaptive Joins.Before we start Adaptive Joins, SQL Server's Query...
2017-11-29
12 reads
Tricks - Copy T SQL Result to Excel
Sometimes, some of the silliest of tricks save so much of time and effort. Very common scenario is to copy...
2017-11-25
683 reads
Tricks - Copy T SQL Result to Excel
Sometimes, some of the silliest of tricks save so much of time and effort. Very common scenario is to copy a query result to excel. Most take either of...
2017-11-25
187 reads
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