Fun with Outer Joins
Learn how an outer join works and how you can use it in your applications to find the results you need when matching data isn't in all your tables.
2014-01-17 (first published: 2012-09-10)
23,271 reads
Kenneth Fisher
sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V4.0
These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each sp returns three data...
2014-01-15
898 reads
Transactions: Rolling back a transaction inside a stored procedure.
So over the last couple of posts I’ve talked about the fact that the ROLLBACK command will roll back an...
2014-01-13 (first published: 2014-01-06)
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Transactions: What are they?
I’ve done a couple of posts now talking about how rolling back a transaction works. I thought this time I...
2014-01-08
1,401 reads
Happy new year!
Happy New Years! It’s the first day of the year and it’s a day known for setting goals. I had...
2014-01-01
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The 12 days after release
On the first day after release my developer gave to me
a performance problem on a crucial query
On the second day...
2013-12-24
787 reads
SSMS Shortcuts and more
I went and voted for #tribalawards and when I was finished they offer you links to 6 different free PDFs....
2013-12-23
683 reads
Transactions: Rolling back part of a transaction.
In my previous post I mentioned the fact that the ROLLBACK command rolls back the entire transaction all the way...
2013-12-19
667 reads
Transactions: Rolling back a nested transaction
Transactions are great and wonderful things. They make sure that our work stays atomic, consistent, isolated and durable (yes ACID)....
2013-12-17
1,522 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #49: Wait for it
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again and this time it’s being hosted by the SQL Soldier. He’s picked the subject of Waits....
2013-12-10
853 reads
Blogs
Resetting on the AI hype train
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
A New Word: Etherness
By Steve Jones
etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
Vibe Coding a Login Tracking System
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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