Technological Movements and the Herd Mentality....
It's amazing to me how the herd mentality works in Technology (and many other things) sometimes. I get the idea...
2011-11-29
1,161 reads
Sam Bendayan
Inline TVFs can't use FORCE ORDER hint but Multi-Statement TVFs can...?
Doing some work with converting Multi-Statement TVFs to Inline TVFs and I'm finding that the Inline TVFs cannot use the...
2011-11-08
683 reads
More info on nested views causing performance problems
As if I needed any further convincing that nested views were bad....
The other day I had to write a particularly...
2011-02-15
1,176 reads
Strange issue while using IDENTITY values in INSTEAD OF triggers
Found an interesting issue last week....it goes like this:
If you are using INSTEAD OF triggers on views (in SQL 2005)...
2010-12-23
785 reads
Range locks do not only occur in Serializable transactions....
According to BOL, "Key-range locks protect a range of rows implicitly included in a record set being read by a...
2010-09-22
1,041 reads
Professional Licensing for Software Professionals?
Over the past few days I have been thinking that the Software Industry is in drastic need of a Professional...
2010-07-14
1,297 reads
Option missing in NTILE function?
Just saw something interesting....we have a requirement to divide a result set into a certain number of groups that have...
2010-06-09
744 reads
Nested views causing query performance woes....
Just ran into an interesting issue AGAIN. It seems that when you nest views in a query you are opening...
2010-04-05
8,683 reads
Access Analysis Services via T-SQL?
It occurred to me the other day that it might be interesting to manage aggregates in an SQL Server database...
2010-03-22
855 reads
BiTemporal Tables, anyone?
I'm doing some interesting research on using BiTemporal tables and I was wondering if anyone out there has any real-world...
2010-03-11
721 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...
Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information
By Brian Kelley
For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday...
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Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column
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Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers