Remotely Administering the Docker Engine on Windows Server 2016
Continuing on my series in working with Docker on Windows, I noticed that I always open up a remote powershell...
2017-02-22
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Blog Posts
SQL Code Guard 2.9 released
Nothing special - just signed with renewed code sign certificate, small fixes, etc
Have fun!
Wait a minute! Almost forgot.
More great news coming...
2017-02-22
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SSMS Presenter Mode
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) release candidate 17.0 RC2 works side-by-side with generally available releases (16.x), but it is not...
2017-02-22
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What’s a DACPAC and a BACPAC?
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2017-02-22
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What’s in my backup file?
Restoring a backup file is pretty easy right?
RESTORE DATABASE [Test] FROM DISK = 'C:\backups\backup.bak';Ok, but what if more than one database...
2017-02-22
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Giving a Security Webinar on Thursday
On Thursday, February 23rd at 3 PM EST I’m giving a webinar on designing a successful database security model with...
2017-02-21
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Heading Back to SQL Bits
I’m honored to be selected to speak at SQL Bits 2017 this April in Telford. This is my favorite SQL...
2017-02-21
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JSON Support Is The Best New Developer Feature in SQL 2016 — Part 4: Performance Comparisons
This is the fourth article in my series about learning how to use SQL Server 2016's new JSON functions. If you haven't already, you can read Part 1?—?Parsing JSON,...
2017-02-21
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Managing Bad Data
In the last post in my ongoing series about ETL best practices, I discussed the importance of error handling in ETL...
2017-02-21 (first published: 2017-02-16)
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 39 – Waffle Chart)
In this module you will learn how to use the Waffle Chart Power BI Custom Visual. The Waffle Chart visual...
2017-02-21
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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...
Forums
Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.
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Using CHOOSE()
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Re-Seeding a Broken Log Shipping Secondary (Without Touching the Primary)
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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