Suresh Raavi is a database professional, with a zest for SQL Server specializing in Administration and performance tuning. Presently, he is a Sr. SQL Server DBA at the Microsoft Products and Services IT SQL team, taking part in various challenging projects, focusing mainly on performance tuning, database development, high availability and database design. He is passionate about database technologies and "data" in general. He has earned the MCITP Database Administrator 2008, and holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering. He provides insights from the field on his blog at http://SqlServerZest.com. His hobbies includes Running and Travelling.
You can follow him on Twitter @SqlServerZest

All authors

All authors

Blogs

Redgate Summit Comes to the Windy City

By

I love Chicago. I went to visit three times in 2023: a Redgate event,...

Non-Functional Requirements

By

I have found that non-functional requirements (NFRs) can be hard to define for a...

Techorama 2024 – Slides

By

You can find the slidedeck for my Techorama session “Microsoft Fabric for Dummies” on...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Always on Availability groups cluster question

By GreatPancake

Hello, I have a question regarding Availability group server architecture. A little background: We...

AG listener cant be removed

By ysalem

Testing with AG on Linux with Cluster=NONE. it was all going ok and as...

Remove comma inside Comma Delimited File csv in SSIS Using Script task

By hongho2

Hi, I have two tables: one for headers with 9 fields and another for...

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

The "ORDER BY" clause behavior

Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records: 

create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50));

insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);
If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments? 
select city

from t1

order by city;

See possible answers