10 Years Young
It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the previous year’s PASS Summit and started I-380 PASS,...
2018-06-12
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Blog Posts
10 Years Young
It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the...
2018-06-12
312 reads
10 Years Young
It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the previous year’s PASS Summit and started I-380 PASS,...
2018-06-12
26 reads
10 Years Young
It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the previous year’s PASS Summit and started I-380 PASS,...
2018-06-12
22 reads
10 Years Young
It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the previous year’s PASS Summit and started I-380 PASS,...
2018-06-12
17 reads
Bring Your Own Key to Azure SQL Database TDE New UI
In a recent post I wrote about a new functionality for Azure SQL Database’s TDE feature: Bring Your Own Key....
2018-06-12 (first published: 2018-06-05)
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Getting Started with Mssql-cli tool
A recent announcement on the release of several SQL Server tools has raised expectations across various groups. Product requirements and business...
2018-06-12
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I’m published at Simple-Talk!
My first article has gone live at Simple-Talk! Thanks to Aunt Kathi for the opportunity!
Detecting Data Breaches
I’m also still writing...
2018-06-12
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It’s Azure T-SQL Tuesday #103
I’m slightly surprised that there haven’t been more invitations about Azure, with the main development branch of SQL Server being...
2018-06-12
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More Changes to PoshSSDTBuildDeploy - DeployReport Information
Hello!
This is going to be a short one because I’ve been working hard all evening on this, and frankly I’m a little tired. But I’ve made a change to...
2018-06-12
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202 SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget: A Roundup
When I put together the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #202, I wasn't sure what...
A Last Minute Trip to the EU
By Steve Jones
My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer...
Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency
In Part 1, we saw how ‘Vamana’ represents vectors as nodes, connects them with...
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Server-Level Table sizes
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Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
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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