Often someone will try to perform a delete on a large number of records and run into a number of problems. Slow performance, log growth, and more. Lynn Pettis shows us how to better handle this situation in SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005
2011-02-18 (first published: 2009-09-15)
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Building a tally table is a common T-SQL problem that many new developers struggle with. Lynn Pettis brings us an article that shows how to use CTEs to accomplish this.
2009-09-22
11,050 reads
I recently posted a poll on SQLServerCentral.com asking what sites people tended to frequent. So far, there haven't been a whole lot of votes, but those who have, have been unanimous in using SQLServerCentral.com and have indicated that there are...
2009-06-17
1,211 reads
While perusing some of the threads on SQLServerCentral.com one of the questions that hit me was regarding the use of scalar functions in queries. In this particular case, in the column list of a SELECT statement. Did it make sense to encapsulate a routine...
2009-05-12
1,958 reads
I have been a bit lax these past few days, but I have been having a bit of a writers block not knowing what to write about. Well, I realized this evening there is something worth writing about, and it is happening right now on SQLServerCentral.com. An...
2009-05-07
1,496 reads
Earlier I talked about dealing with the difficult forum user from the perspective of providing help. Now let us look at from the flip side of the coin. You are asking for help and you aren't getting what you want or need. The first thing you have...
2009-04-07
1,735 reads
T-SQL calculations can get tricky at times, and since you often work with multiple rows, it's good to be exact in your data manipulation. New author Lynn Pettis brings us an article about calculating ages.
2009-03-13 (first published: 2008-06-30)
25,894 reads
Lynn Pettis gives us a look at a new way to solve a T-SQL problem.
2009-01-27
12,331 reads
By Steve Jones
This was an interesting thing I saw in a Question of the Day submission....
By Kevin3NF
Don’t Panic! It’s a vague but common complaint, frequently with no additional details. Before...
I thought I didn’t care about linting, and lately, I haven’t written a lot...
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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