Matt

Matt Bowler is a DBA at Trade Me, and teaches database design and administration courses at the local institute of technology. A recent but avid discoverer of SQL Server, Matt is a regular contributor to forums at MSDN, Experts Exchange and SSC and he blogs at mattsql.wordpress.com.

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Conditional Aggregates

The Problem: A legacy table contains amounts and a char column indicating whether the amount is a credit or a...

2014-02-11 (first published: )

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Duplicate Statistics

The Setup:
Standard best practise is to have auto create and auto update statistics set for SQL Server databases. But there...

2013-09-03 (first published: )

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Modify Power BI page visibility and active status with Semantic Link Labs

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Setting page visibility and the active page are often overlooked last steps when publishing...

T-SQL Tuesday #190–Mastering a New Technical Skill

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It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this time Todd Kleinhans has a great...

Getting Started with the MSSQL AI Agent in VS Code

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Recently I was working in VS Code and I saw a walkthrough for the...

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Password Guidance

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Using table variables in T-SQL

By Alessandro Mortola

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Azure elastic query credential question

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I am trying to check out elastic query between two test instances we have...

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Question of the Day

Using table variables in T-SQL

What happens if you run the following code in SQL Server 2022+? 

declare @t1 table (id int);

insert into @t1 (id) values (NULL), (1), (2), (3);

select count(*)
from @t1
where @t1.id is distinct from NULL;
 

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