SQL Server STUFF
The STUFF function in SQL Server is one of those little gems that is very under-used but when needed can be a real handy utility – at least that’s...
2022-01-10
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The STUFF function in SQL Server is one of those little gems that is very under-used but when needed can be a real handy utility – at least that’s...
2022-01-10
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I blogged the other about have some issues translating Oracle date formats to SQL Server date data types I find the way SQL Server handles dates with a defined...
2021-12-06
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I was doing some conversion of Oracle code (PL/SQL) to SQL Server code (T-SQL) – which had some quirks. I just thought that I’d share a quick tip that...
2021-12-02
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G’day, I was asked recently what a modern data warehouse is – and that’s a vey thought provoking question. First, there’s the tag “Modern” – I think what’s modern...
2020-12-14
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OPENJSON is pretty central to manipulating JSON documents in T-SQL. As we’ve seen, we can use a default schema that will return metadata about the JSON document or we...
2020-06-24 (first published: 2020-06-09)
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OPENJSON is pretty central to manipulating JSON documents in T-SQL. As we’ve seen, we can use a default schema that will return metadata about the JSON document or we...
2020-06-09
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Using Aliases in T-SQL is very common. We can alias both Tables (FROM clause) and Columns (SELECT clause) and some other things too. It’s all pretty fundamental to writing...
2020-06-08
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Using Aliases in T-SQL is very common. We can alias both Tables (FROM clause) and Columns (SELECT clause) and some other things too. It’s all pretty fundamental to writing...
2020-06-08
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Recently we reviewed FOR JSON PATH. That was used for shaping tabular data (data that comes directly from a SQL table) into a JSON document. The PATH we are...
2020-06-07
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Recently we reviewed FOR JSON PATH. That was used for shaping tabular data (data that comes directly from a SQL table) into a JSON document. The PATH we are...
2020-06-07
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A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers