Does The Order Of Index Columns Matter?
When beginning to learn SQL, at some point you learn that indexes can be created to help improve the performance...
2018-09-13 (first published: 2018-09-04)
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Faking Temporal Tables with Triggers
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #106 prompt by Steve Jones. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
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Faking Temporal Tables with Triggers
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday #106 prompt by Steve Jones. T-SQL Tuesday is a way for the SQL Server community to share ideas about...
2018-09-11
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FizzBuzz and Multiple Recursive Member CTEs
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Last week I needed to write a recursive common table expression. I’ve written them before,...
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Does The Order Of Index Columns Matter?
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When beginning to learn SQL, at some point you learn that indexes can be created to help improve the performance of queries.
Creating your first...
2018-09-04
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Does The Order Of Index Columns Matter?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
When beginning to learn SQL, at some point you learn that indexes can be created to help improve the performance of queries.
Creating your first...
2018-09-04
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6 Techniques For Troubleshooting Your Code
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday #105 prompt by Wayne Sheffield. T-SQL Tuesday is a way...
2018-08-30 (first published: 2018-08-14)
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Ignoring NULLs with FIRST_VALUE
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The SQL Server FIRST_VALUE function makes it easy to return the “first value in an...
2018-08-28
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Ignoring NULLs with FIRST_VALUE
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The SQL Server FIRST_VALUE function makes it easy to return the "first value in an ordered set of values."
The problem is that if that...
2018-08-28
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Ignoring NULLs with FIRST_VALUE
Watch this week's video on YouTube
The SQL Server FIRST_VALUE function makes it easy to return the "first value in an ordered set of values."
The problem is that if that...
2018-08-28
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Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers