Checking the Health of your CLR
The Common Language Runtime (CLR) is the fundamental nerve center of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is this nerve center that...
2018-01-16
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Jason Brimhall
Checking the Health of your CLR
Having a tool to be able to monitor CLR health will be essential as you deploy more and more managed code within SQL Server. Extended Events offers a great...
2018-01-16
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SQL Server Configurations – Back to Basics
One thing that SQL Server does very well is come pre-configured in a lot of ways. These pre-configured settings would be called defaults. Having default settings is not a...
2018-01-11
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SQL Server Configurations – Back to Basics
One thing that SQL Server does very well is come pre-configured in a lot of ways. These pre-configured settings would...
2018-01-11
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Dynamics AX Event Session
Many moons ago, I wrote about how to enable the context info for Dynamics AX. Having the context info enabled...
2018-01-10 (first published: 2018-01-03)
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Summiting that Technical Challenge
The challenge at hand - conquering that technical problem and getting that high associated with the metaphorical high of summiting a tough task.
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2018-01-10
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Common Tempdb Trace Flags – Back to Basics
In this article I introduce you to some basics in regards to default behaviors and settings in tempdb along with some best practices. It is advisable to investigate from...
2018-01-06
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Common Tempdb Trace Flags – Back to Basics
Once in a while I come across something that sounds fun or interesting and decide to dive a little deeper...
2018-01-06
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Changing Default Logs Directory – Back to Basics
In this article I will explore altering the default logs directory location. Some may say this is no big deal and you can just use the default location used...
2018-01-05
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An Identity Crisis: Is it Profiler or is it Extended Events?
I have been working on this article for far longer than one might think is necessary for something of this...
2018-01-04 (first published: 2017-12-22)
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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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? See possible answers