When row estimation goes wrong
Whilst working at a client site, I hit upon one of those issues that you are not sure if that...
2012-11-29 (first published: 2012-11-26)
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Dave Ballantyne
Returning the Top X row for each group (SQL Spackle)
One of the most common T-SQL questions is on returning a ranked result set for each member of a group. Dave Ballentyne brings us a short tutorial on how you can do this in T-SQL.
2012-11-23 (first published: 2010-12-06)
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Advanced TSQL training
Over the past few years, Ive had it on my to do list to write and deliver and full-scale SQLServer...
2012-10-28
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SQL Saturday 162
SQL Saturday 162 was a great event, kudos to the team involved and I took a lot of pleasure in...
2012-09-09
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Reporting on common code smells : A POC
Over the past few blog entries, I’ve been looking at parsing TSQL scripts in a variety of ways for a...
2012-08-29
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How to prevent ‘Select *’ : The elegant way
UPDATE 2012-09-12 For my latest adventures with TSQL Parsers please see this post.
I’ve been doing a lot of work with the...
2012-08-09
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Joining on NULLs
A problem I see on a fairly regular basis is that of dealing with NULL values. Specifically here, where we...
2012-07-26
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Indexed view deadlocking
Deadlocks can be a really tricky thing to track down the root cause of. There are lots of articles on...
2012-06-22 (first published: 2012-06-13)
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“Query cost (relative to the batch)” <> Query cost relative to batch
OK, so that is quite a contradictory title, but unfortunately it is true. There is a common misconception that the query with...
2012-05-10
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Offset without OFFSET
A while ago Robert Cary posted an article on SQL Server Central entitled 2005 Paging – The Holy Grail which is,...
2012-04-26
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Blogs
I recommend Smart Brevity (book) for communications
By Brian Kelley
Following the advice in Smart Brevity improves communication.
SQL Server 2025 Developer Edition – One size fits all
By John
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2025, bringing big improvements to its main database engine....
Monday Monitor Tips: Learning While Using the Tool
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about what certain items in Redgate Monitor mean. They have...
Forums
Switch partition: NULL boundary id
I have table: t1 in schema1 with 19 billion records. I have another table...
Minimally Viable Security
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Encoding NULL
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Question of the Day
Encoding NULL
What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2025?
SELECT BASE64_ENCODE(NULL)See possible answers