Monica Rathbun

Monica lives in Virginia and is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform. She has over 15 years of experience working with a wide variety of database platforms with a focus on SQL Server. She is a frequent speaker at IT industry conferences on topics including performance tuning and configuration management. She is the Leader of the Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group and a Mid-Atlantic PASS Regional Mentor. She is passionate about SQL Server and the SQL Server community, doing anything she can to give back. Monica can always be found on Twitter (@sqlespresso) handing out helpful tips.

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T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future

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Keeping MS Docs Up to Date

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Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information

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is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to the 1st 21 rows?

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Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column

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Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...

any reason to avoid asking ssis to extract files from ftp

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hi we have to replace talend which generally was used to move files. talend's...

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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.Numbers

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