Normalisation
The purpose of normalisation is to remove redundancy and prevent conflict. 1st Normal Form (1NF) – Every field can have only...
2013-08-07
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Client Pressures and Code Quality
In my experience, code quality always trumps urgency because when code has been released that has questionable quality, it is...
2013-06-09
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SQL Query Result Order
Every time an SQL query is run without the ORDER BY clause, the sort order of the results returned is...
2013-06-05
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SQL Logical Query Processing Order
This probably applies more to beginners or people who have been using SQL for a while but have been wondering...
2013-06-03
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SQL and Relational Theory
Do you know the foundation of SQL? According to the book Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Training Kit on the...
2013-05-31
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The right terminology for the right audience
For those who has the privilege of being in the technology consulting industry for some time and started out in...
2013-01-17
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Address Clean-up for Mail Merge using SSIS
Remember the good ol’ days of going through a list of addresses and manually cleaning up hundreds if not thousands...
2012-10-19
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Blogs
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How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server
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PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
SELECT SQUARE('12') See possible answers