2017-08-03
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2017-08-03
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2014-12-04 (first published: 2014-11-17)
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Check 96 server and database settings to make sure they match your expectations in your databases with this script.
2014-05-06
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2013-07-03 (first published: 2013-06-07)
851 reads
What is the difference between an expert DBA and a Master DBA? This piece from William Talada talks about Objects, Relationships, Systems, and Processes and how they may relate to your job as a DBA.
2012-09-11
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Powerful function to find strings containing or excluding classes of ASCII characters.
2012-09-10 (first published: 2012-08-28)
1,033 reads
Shows awesome view of columns with constraints and indexes and foreign keys to spot errors fast.
2010-08-04 (first published: 2009-12-03)
1,451 reads
IsNumber does weak checking and fails cast to BigInt so I wrote IsBigInt to replace it.
2010-06-11 (first published: 2010-05-05)
3,144 reads
William Talada brings us a short article to help you check your ANSI NULL settings and gives you a few reasons why you might want to make them consistent.
2010-01-27
7,883 reads
Display a row vertically when a table has hundreds of columns to avoid scrolling.
2010-01-21 (first published: 2009-12-30)
3,225 reads
By Kevin3NF
Can we normalize a couple of things? 1 – Trade Schools. Back in the...
Data isn't just about numbers and spreadsheets. It holds stories, patterns, and the answers...
By Brian Kelley
When I look at a system and think about its security model, the first...
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I have table TicketNumbers i TicketNumber UID 2 10 09901a22c7c3acc6786847c775f1d113 6 5 00dad28bef21f916240d6e8c1c1bd67d 12 ...
Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers