What I’ve learned from Groundhog Day.
One of my all time favorite movies is Groundhog Day staring Bill Murray. In case you’ve never watched it (and ... Continue reading
2020-01-10 (first published: 2019-12-30)
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Kenneth Fisher
SQL Homework – January 2020 – Document, document, document
Happy New Year! It being New Year’s, at least by the Gregorian calendar, I thought we could make this month’s ... Continue reading
2020-01-01
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What happens if I disable the clustered index?
You are probably already aware that you can disable an index. This can be handy when you have a large ... Continue reading
2019-12-30 (first published: 2019-12-16)
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A gift. T-SQL Tuesday #121
My good friend Malathi Mahadevan (blog|twitter) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and wants us to talk about Gifts received ... Continue reading
2019-12-23 (first published: 2019-12-10)
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Viewing Azure SQL DB security with sp_AzSQLDBPermissions
A few months back I put the Azure SQL DB version of my permissions script into beta. I’m not sure ... Continue reading
2019-12-18
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SQL Homework – December 2019 – The default trace and the system health session.
I know this is the holiday season for many of us (which ones depend on your religion and nationality of ... Continue reading
2019-12-17 (first published: 2019-12-02)
450 reads
Bad Idea Cowboy Hat: BEGIN TRANSACTION; GO 1000;
One of my favorite presentations is Revenge the SQL by Rob Volk (blog|twitter). It’s a demonstration of a lot of ... Continue reading
2019-12-12 (first published: 2019-11-27)
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Session Evaluations from “SQL Server Security from the Ground Up”
I was recently given the opportunity to speak at Pass Summit. As always (this is the second time) this was ... Continue reading
2019-12-12
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Error message: http://System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Conversion failed when converting the varchar value ‘NULL’ to data type int.
I love this error. Primarily because it demonstrates two very important things. Errors matter. Make sure when you ask someone ... Continue reading
2019-12-11 (first published: 2019-12-05)
672 reads
#PowershellBasics: Working with arrays
I mentioned arrays in a previous post so I figured I should talk about what they are and how to ... Continue reading
2019-12-06 (first published: 2019-11-25)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
Forums
Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.
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Using CHOOSE()
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Re-Seeding a Broken Log Shipping Secondary (Without Touching the Primary)
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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