Shredding XML in XEvents
One of the biggest pains with Extended Events is the thing we love to hate – XML. XML is so foreign...
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Jason Brimhall
Shredding XML in XEvents
One of the biggest pains with Extended Events is the thing we love to hate - XML. XML is so foreign to many DBAs. It's not relational and often...
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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