Microsoft Certified Trainer!
For the first time in my career, I’m a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). This title came as a result of...
2017-05-28
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Igor Micev
Microsoft Certified Trainer!
For the first time in my career, I’m a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). This title came as a result of my two-year working as a trainer at the Seavus...
2017-05-28
5 reads
Microsoft Certified Trainer!
For the first time in my career, I’m a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). This title came as a result of my two-year working as a trainer at the Seavus...
2017-05-28
5 reads
Multiple usage of functions to ensure “value” is not null? – NO
In this post I’m describing a piece of code that is not well written. The author (unknown) had applied three...
2017-05-10 (first published: 2017-04-29)
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Some stuff with Date and Time in SQL Server
I’m writing this post because I want to put some more stuff around dates and times in one place. I...
2017-05-09
1,060 reads
Some stuff with Date and Time in SQL Server
I’m writing this post because I want to put some more stuff around dates and times in one place. I additionally teach SQL Server classes and often come up...
2017-05-09
5 reads
Some stuff with Date and Time in SQL Server
I’m writing this post because I want to put some more stuff around dates and times in one place. I additionally teach SQL Server classes and often come up...
2017-05-09
6 reads
Multiple usage of functions to ensure “value” is not null? – NO
In this post I’m describing a piece of code that is not well written. The author (unknown) had applied three functions for a variable to ensure it never accepts...
2017-04-29
20 reads
Multiple usage of functions to ensure “value” is not null? – NO
In this post I’m describing a piece of code that is not well written. The author (unknown) had applied three functions for a variable to ensure it never accepts...
2017-04-29
3 reads
Mixed page allocation
MIXED_PAGE_ALLOCATION is a new option introduced with SQL Server 2016. It controls whether the database can create initial pages using...
2017-04-08
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The Decoded Value
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:
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