Script to analyse space usage by your Service Broker
I believe that service broker is one of the best features from SQL server 2005, well along with the xml...
2012-04-16
2,508 reads
Art
Creating cards in Trello via the REST API and parsing the returned JSON all in a SQL CLR
I recently blogged about how good I thought Trello was and shortly afterwards I found out that they did provide...
2012-03-14
8,604 reads
Trello: An agile style kan-ban web app that really works
I am no different to many others where I am being asked to work on various projects concurrently and expected...
2012-02-29 (first published: 2012-02-27)
2,902 reads
Blogging: Controlling SPAM in Orchard CMS with OpenCaptcha
When I started blogging last year, my first major decision was either to host my own site somewhere using a...
2012-02-16
1,818 reads
Convert comma separated string to table and vice versa
I know that this subject has been blogged about numerous times but I thought I'd post an alternative way of...
2012-02-07
18,790 reads
Denali
Is all set to be officially known as SQL 2012 and will be finally released in....... 2012!
Announced at the PASS...
2012-02-07
853 reads
Simple XML exist performance enhancement
I came across this really simple best practice from BOL for the xml method exist which when used will give...
2012-02-07
1,277 reads
SQLBits9
SQLBits9 – “Query across the Mersey” was held in the majestic Adelphi hotel. This was my first SQLBits experience and was...
2012-02-07
997 reads
Introduction to XML DML (Part 3) - Using the modify() method: delete
This is the last part of a 3 part blog which will attempt to show some different ways of how...
2012-02-06 (first published: 2012-02-02)
10,308 reads
Introduction to XML DML (Part 2) - Using the modify() method: replace value of
This is the second part of a 3 part blog which will attempt to show some different ways of how...
2012-01-26
14,025 reads
Blogs
A Last Minute Trip to the EU
By Steve Jones
My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer...
Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency
In Part 1, we saw how ‘Vamana’ represents vectors as nodes, connects them with...
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
Forums
Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in...
AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
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Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers