Holy Foreign Keys and Indexes
This article shows an interesting issue with foreign keys and how they are aligned with the base tables in SQL 2005 SP 4.
2011-10-10
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James DiMauro
- Interests: My kids and family.
My Experiences at SQL Saturday 64
A commentary of the experiences of James Dimauro at SQL Saturday #64 in Baton Rouge, LA in August 2011.
2011-08-17
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Moving Databases with the ALTER Command
A script that will move the files of a passed set of databases to a new data folder and log folder from James DiMauro.
2009-08-26
8,638 reads
A Story of the Deleted Transaction Log
James DiMauro brings us a story of how a transaction log was deleted and then recreated. (from July 2008)
2009-08-07 (first published: 2008-07-14)
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Question of the Day
A Strange Choice
What is returned when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
CREATE TABLE CatIndex
( indexval VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.CatIndex (indexval) VALUES ('1'), ('2'), ('3')
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(indexval, cast('2025-01-01' AS DATE), CAST('2025-02-01' AS DATE), CAST('2025-03-01' AS DATE))
FROM dbo.CatIndex AS ci See possible answers