Sheldon Hull

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Dataedo - First Look

Diagraming and Documentation
Previously, I've written up on database diagramming for visualization of database structures. Check that out for more detailed...

2017-08-07

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Dataedo - First Look

update 2019-02-22
Image links broken. Since their product is continually improving, I'm going to just link to their product here instead so you can review their latest demo content there....

2017-08-07

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InfluxDB and Annotations

This post assumes you've already setup InfluxDB and have Grafana running.
Inserting annotations Annotations are not a special type of resource, instead it's just another metric that you query with...

2017-08-07

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Using CHOOSE()

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Question of the Day

Using CHOOSE()

We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.

CREATE TABLE Status
(
    StatusID INT,
    StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
    StatusID,
    StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');

GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned?

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