SmartPaster
I recently discovered this great little free Visual Studio Add-in that allows pasting text as preformatted strings in VB or...
2012-02-02
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Case Sensitive searches in T-SQL
I just ran into an issue with one of my applications where a SQL statement had updated a status code...
2012-01-19
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Excel for the DBA, Part 1–The Basics
This will be a series of handy hints for people that know SQL and are frustrated by Excel. I am...
2011-12-06
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An Attempt to Make SSIS Package Deployment More Reasonable
Full disclosure: There might be a better way to do this. I am not aware of it.
Problems:
Maintaining multiple DB environments...
2011-11-03
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Save a step: Using Computed Columns in a Table Variable (or Temp Table)
One of the databases that I support reports all money values in both the local currency and US Dollars. Very...
2011-10-28
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Tobias Ternstrom’s Great Denali Preview
Tobias Ternstrom from Microsoft gave a great talk at Tech Ed regarding upcoming features of SQL Server Denali. His presentation...
2011-06-30
2,217 reads
The Recursive CTE
(Yet another boring org chart example – except this one has multiple roots)
One of my apps has a hierarchial org chart...
2011-05-18
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How to determine the current SSIS runtime environment
If you want to test if you’re currently debugging an SSIS package via BIDS/Visual Studio, or running normally via DTExec,...
2011-04-28
2,396 reads
Renumbering Rows in a Table Variable (or Table/Temp Table)
I was recently working on a data cleanup problem where I had to do lots of comparisons of one row...
2011-02-24
2,097 reads
Renumbering Rows in a Table Variable (or Table/Temp Table)
I was recently working on a data cleanup problem where I had to do lots of comparisons of one row...
2011-02-18
4,255 reads
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OpenQuery with Application Intent specified runs on primary node.
I have an Open query that runs on an Always On server via a...
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Generating a Series I
What is returned by this code in SQL Server 2022?
SELECT value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(4, 1);See possible answers