Red errors in the results pane
Most DBAs have seen those nice clear red errors in the results pane. And I’m sure most DBAs have noticed...
2012-12-27 (first published: 2012-12-19)
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Kenneth Fisher
Where is my backup?
We recently added responsibility for ~80 more servers to our team. This means that my team-mates and I are working...
2012-12-19 (first published: 2012-12-12)
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Generating multiple SQL statements from a query
Dynamic SQL is one of my favorite tools in the DBA toolbox. I’m big on automation and dynamic SQL can...
2012-12-17
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Logins vs Users
Logins are not Users. It’s a pretty easy concept but one that seems to give a lot of people problems....
2012-12-12 (first published: 2012-12-03)
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Copying Connection Managers in SSIS
Did you know you can copy and paste connection managers in SSIS? While I haven’t found this a huge benefit...
2012-12-10
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Creating an empty table from a SELECT statement
I’m in the middle of reading a good book on DMVs, “SQL Server DMVs in Action” http://www.manning.com/stirk by Ian W....
2012-11-30 (first published: 2012-11-26)
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CTEs beyond SELECT
The other day I was writing a query to pull some DMV information and I ended up using several CTEs...
2012-11-20
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Looping through multiple servers in SSIS Part 3
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve set up a SSIS package that will loop through a group of servers...
2012-11-15
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2012-11-15
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Looping through multiple servers in SSIS part 2
Last week I posted a quick example of looping through multiple servers using SSIS and being in a bit of...
2012-11-12 (first published: 2012-11-09)
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers