Rolling back transactions with cursors and local variables.
I’ve been doing some work on a credit card payment system lately. Obviously this needs to be robust and consistent...
2014-04-10
785 reads
I’ve been doing some work on a credit card payment system lately. Obviously this needs to be robust and consistent...
2014-04-10
785 reads
If you’re like me, you might be thinking “I want some more things to think about when I migrate between...
2014-03-27
634 reads
We all have blind spots in our knowledge. We don’t know they are there and when we are thinking through...
2014-03-13
730 reads
I’d be struggling to remember a week where I hadn’t run a query against the dmv sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats to find unused...
2014-03-10 (first published: 2014-02-27)
3,203 reads
Problem: You require the ability to perform a repeatable standardised installation of multiple instances of SQL Server or the ability...
2014-02-13
40,263 reads
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: 2014-02-04)
3,064 reads
It’s a well known fact that any sitcom that runs for a certain length of time will release a clip...
2014-01-13
1,661 reads
A while ago I blogged my about my approach to service packing a SQL Server 2008R2 active active cluster. Time...
2014-01-08
1,564 reads
I struck this error in one of my SSIS packages, I found lots of tips and suggestions online for the...
2014-01-08 (first published: 2014-01-06)
1,985 reads
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: 2013-08-28)
3,468 reads
Data isn't just about numbers and spreadsheets. It holds stories, patterns, and the answers...
By Brian Kelley
When I look at a system and think about its security model, the first...
On Wednesday May 15th 2024 I will give a free webinar on MSSQLTips.com about...
Carisol 350mg is the main ingredient. Its powerful formulation, which includes the active ingredient...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The "ORDER BY" clause behavior
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Are IT Certifications Still Relevant?
Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers