Backup and Restore Strategies in SQL Server : A Brief Introduction
Establishment of a successful business requires the proper maintenance of the data. SQL Server is one the popular platform for...
2017-03-20
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Blog Posts
Backup and Restore Strategies in SQL Server : A Brief Introduction
Establishment of a successful business requires the proper maintenance of the data. SQL Server is one the popular platform for the same. In SQL Server, a proper strategy has...
2017-03-20
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Generating Frequency Table
This week’s blog post is rather simple. One of the main characteristics of a data set involving classes, or discrete...
2017-03-20 (first published: 2017-03-06)
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Help Me, Help You, Deliver DevOps
I believe in DevOps.
Actually, that’s a pretty horrible way to put it. It’s not about belief, like keeping Tinkerbell alive.
I...
2017-03-20 (first published: 2017-03-07)
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TDE: Looking inside your database and backups
TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) encrypts the data files at rest but don’t forget that it also encrypts your backup file...
2017-03-20
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Testing Your SQL Server Backups the Easy Way with PowerShell & dbatools
In a previous post I wrote about how easy it was to restore a whole SQL Servers user databases from...
2017-03-20
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The parts of an object’s name
Any object within a database in SQL Server has what is called a four part name. Which rather implies four...
2017-03-20
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Webinar with Pure Storage Mar23 2pm Eastern
On Thursday, March 23rd, at 2pm Eastern, I will be hosting a webinar with Argenis Fernandez from Pure Storage where...
2017-03-20
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An Introduction to SQL Server 2016 Query Store
By David Postlethwaite
David is delivering a talk An Introduction to SQL Server Query Store at SQL Saturday Iceland today - this...
2017-03-18
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Friday Reading 2017-03-17
As this is being posted I’m on my way up to Dublin Airport to catch my flight to Iceland ready...
2017-03-17
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers