2021-03-18
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2021-03-18
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After the first article created a Calendar table, learn how to use this in a practical sense with some common queries.
2020-05-15 (first published: 2016-10-13)
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This second part to a previous article on Calendar table generation shows how to create a holiday table containing both fixed-date and variable-date holidays.
2018-12-25 (first published: 2016-09-19)
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Although it is common to group by periods such as Week, Month, or Quarter, sometimes alternative periods are needed. This simple technique lets you split a year into periods with any number of days.
2017-12-08 (first published: 2016-09-26)
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This article introduces the concept of the Calendar table to SQL newcomers and illustrates use of a few columns they might not have imagined.
2017-11-24 (first published: 2016-09-08)
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2016-09-05
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2016-08-18
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Why does everyone use "it depends" as an answer to many T-SQL questions? Bob Hovious brings us a short example of how performance can change based on data loads for the same code.
2010-03-16
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By Steve Jones
I heard someone say recently that you can’t change a primary key value in...
By Kevin3NF
Indexes 101: What, Why, and When? “What Is an Index?” I get this question...
By Arun Sirpal
I do believe most people know about the ability to backup your SQL server...
Quick one I hope in case I'm heading off in entirely the wrong direction!...
Hi everyone I am looking at the size of my db on disk (ie...
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How can I check what value I used for TEXTSIZE? I ran this code:
SET TEXTSIZE 8096But then deleted the code and couldn't remember. Is there a way to check this? See possible answers