Different methods to generate query execution plans
One of the things I enjoy about my job is when I have to develop or review some T-SQL code, for my own projects or reviewing someones else code....
2018-09-10
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Blog Posts
Different methods to generate query execution plans
One of the things I enjoy about my job is when I have to develop or review some T-SQL code,...
2018-09-10
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Different Ways to Handle Deadlock in SQL Server
Introduction To Deadlock
Deadlock in SQL server is a condition in which two or more system server processes IDS (SPIDs) are waiting for a resource. No process can get the...
2018-09-10
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Different Ways to Handle Deadlock in SQL Server
Introduction To Deadlock
Deadlock in SQL server is a condition in which two or more system server processes IDS (SPIDs) are...
2018-09-10
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Hello Cloud Goodbye DBA
No, not quite. I have had many interesting conversations around this topic and I don’t think (personal opinion) that DBAs...
2018-09-10
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PASS FY2019 Budget Notes Updated
PASS has updated the notes supporting the FY 2019 budget to answer the questions I raised in my earlier post....
2018-09-10
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Redgate University is Growing
There isn’t a degree to be gained, but you can get a lot of information about Redgate products at Redgate...
2018-09-10
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Relational databases aren’t the problem
Content warning: This is the first of two rebuttal essays, about why someone is wrong on the Internet. It is...
2018-09-10 (first published: 2018-08-22)
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Remember the Default Window
I ran across a question recently from a user about why they had strange results from a windowing query. This...
2018-09-10 (first published: 2018-08-23)
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SQL Server Automatic Tuning in the Real-World
In SQL Server 2016 we saw Query Store. Query Store was a game changer to help database administrators identify troublesome queries. Query Store helps DBAs make those queries run...
2018-09-10
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Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
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Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
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AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
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Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers