Column order can matter
Ordinarily, column order of a SQL statement does not matter.
Select a,b,c
from table
will produce the same execution plan as Select c,b,a
from...
2011-06-06
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Dave Ballantyne
Kent .Net/SqlServer User Group – Upcoming events
At the Kent user group we have two upcoming events. Both are to be held at F-Keys Training suite http://f-keys.co.uk/...
2011-06-05
639 reads
SqlHerts–26th May 2011
Thanks to those who turned out to see my presentation at SqlHerts on Thursday 26thMay. Its a true pleasure to...
2011-05-29
1,332 reads
#SqlBits and SSIS custom components
If you are in anyway interested in SQL Server and live in the UK, you cant of failed to of...
2011-04-11
705 reads
Do you know SqlServer ? Do you want an iPad ?
If you’ve answered yes to both of those questions , Jacob Sebastian has some more question for you.
Every day in March...
2011-03-12
538 reads
“Apparently, you signed a software services agreement without fully understanding it.”
I am not a lawyer. Let me say that again, I am not a lawyer.
Todays Dilbert has prompted me...
2011-02-24
807 reads
Denali Paging–Key seek lookups
In my previous post “Denali Paging – is it win.win ?” I demonstrated the use of using the Paging functionality within Denali. ...
2010-11-19
682 reads
Denali Paging–Is it win/win ?
I'm not one for automatically poo-pooing new ideas, new practices and new technology. Rather I like to take a measured...
2010-11-10
788 reads
The best things in life are free
Greg Gonzalez (blog | twitter) of SqlSentry, last night released a very cool new and free product. Plan explorer is a...
2010-10-21
2,932 reads
An impossible case
In a previous blog entry (Inconsistent NullIf behaviour), Jeff Moden and Dan Halliday(twitter) both made a very similar observation.
When executing...
2010-09-06
543 reads
Blogs
SQL Server 2025 Generally Available
By Brian Kelley
This was announced last week at Microsoft Ignite and it's been covered by others...
Chatting with Power BI: Who Benefits from This Conversation?
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A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore...
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SQL Server 2022 order by bug?
Hi, I was using order by on a column with characters and saw something...
SQL Server 2025 Build List
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Filtered Indexes: The Developer’s Secret Weapon in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers