T-SQL Tuesday 19 Disasters and Recovery
This post is my contribution to T-SQL Tuesday, hosted this month by Allen Kin (blog | twitter).
A first step in any disaster recovery...
2011-06-14
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Chad Miller
Tampa SharePoint Saturday 2011
I presented a 75 minute session at Tampa SharePoint Saturday on PowerShell Basics.
The presentation and demo scripts can be found...
2011-06-11
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Use ACE Drivers and PowerShell to Talk to Text Files
As a follow up to my SQLRally 2011 Scripting Guy Guest Blog Post which dealt with Excel and Access files,...
2011-05-10
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SQLRally 2011 Scripting Guy Guest Blog Post
Ed Wilson (Blog|Twitter) aka Scripting Guy has series of SQL Server related posts the week of May 2nd 2011 including...
2011-05-04
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Upcoming Events
If live in Central/South Florida or are planning a trip, we’ve got several IT community events worth checking out…
May
SQLRally in...
2011-04-08
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Tampa IT Camp 2011 Lessons Learned Part 2
In part 1 I provide an overview of concept of IT Camp, how the plan was developed by borrowing ideas...
2011-04-03
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Tampa IT Camp 2011 Lessons Learned Part 1
On Saturday, March 19th 2011 we held the first ever Saturday “code camp” style event for the IT Pro (Sys...
2011-03-30
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Tampa IT Camp 2011 Presentation
I presented a one hour session at Tampa IT Camp on SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX): “In this session we...
2011-03-20
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To Script or Not To Script
When approaching an automation problem the first questions you must answer is whether you should even invest the time to...
2011-03-15
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Restore and Relocate Database Files Using PowerShell
I was recently asked a question on restoring a database using PowerShell with the following requirements
Take a database backup file...
2011-03-14
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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