Dwain Camps

Dwain Camps is a seasoned project manager specializing in business solutions delivered through software development and implementation. Because performance often takes the forefront when it comes to customer satisfaction in software applications, his technical focus is in high-performance T-SQL.

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FIRST_VALUE vs. Min: #SQLNewBlogger

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I had mentioned some new T-SQL functions for SQL Server 2022 and a commenter...

Explicitly Defining Values in an IN Clause VS Putting Them into a Temp Table and Use a Semi-Join

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This post comes off the back of my last, where I looked at issues...

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Cannot install development version.

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A while into install I get a Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server....

More Funny SELECTs

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Reducing the Cycle Time

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More Funny SELECTs

What does this code return? 

SELECT
  ( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder
    FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
    WHERE
      soh.OrderDate     > '01/01/2011'
      AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2012') AS OrdersIn2000
, ( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder
    FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
    WHERE
      soh.OrderDate     > '01/01/2012'
      AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2013') AS OrdersIn2001
, ( SELECT COUNT (*), MAX(soh.OrderDate) AS latestorder
    FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
    WHERE
      soh.OrderDate     > '01/01/2013'
      AND soh.OrderDate < '01/01/2014') AS OrdersIn2002;
GO

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