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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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OPENJSON and CROSS APPLY

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: )

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OPENJSON and an Alias

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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OPENJSON and an Alias

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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Switch partition: NULL boundary id

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Minimally Viable Security

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Encoding NULL

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Question of the Day

Encoding NULL

What is returned from this code in SQL Server 2025?

SELECT BASE64_ENCODE(NULL)

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