SELECT COUNT(*) vs COUNT(1) vs COUNT(ColumnName)
What is the difference between COUNT(*), COUNT(1) and COUNT(ColumnName)? A mystery that will never be known… ok that was a...
2011-09-15
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What is the difference between COUNT(*), COUNT(1) and COUNT(ColumnName)? A mystery that will never be known… ok that was a...
2011-09-15
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Those who know me will know that this post is a little out of the ordinary… I am posting about...
2011-08-12
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I’ll be honest, I am partially writing this because I always forget how to reset the identity column on a...
2011-08-11
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First of all if you came out to my webinar this morning let me say a huge thank you! I...
2011-08-10
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Tomorrow I will be presenting a webinar at 11 AM eastern time for the Pragmatic Works Training on the T’s. ...
2011-08-08
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SQL Saturday in South Florida is quickly approaching in just 2 short weeks. As usual, if you are in the...
2011-08-03
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Oh no you, you got the Could not load type ‘Microsoft.AnalysisServices.SharePoint.Integration.ReportGalleryView’ error!!! What to do now? Why did you get...
2011-08-02
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SQL Saturday #85 is quickly approaching. It will be held in sunny Orlando, FL so if you live in the...
2011-07-30
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One of the most annoying processes with SharePoint is backing up a site collection. There is a build in tool...
2011-07-13
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It has been a few weeks since I last posted. I know, I’m a slacker, thanks for pointing that out. ...
2011-07-10
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By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers