SQL Query Formatting – Putting Lipstick On A Pig
“Psssst….”
“Hey buddy! Yeah, you there in the propeller hat. You’re a SQL nerd, right? Can you help me tune this...
2013-10-24
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Inetrview FAQ 3
1. How to find the maximum no of connection allowed in SQL Server?
Select@@MAX_Connections
2. How to select top 2 rows without...
2013-10-24
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 14.4: Node Navigation
By Steve Bolton
…………The pinnacle of difficulty in this series of amateur self-tutorials on SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM) was surmounted...
2013-10-23 (first published: 2013-10-15)
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Get list of dates using recursive Common Table Expression (CTE)
Many times we need a list of consecutive dates or time at runtime mainly for a recursive ETL process. This...
2013-10-23
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Memory Optimization Advisor – SQL Server 2014 CTP2
SQLServer 2014 CTP2 came with an inbuilt tool called Memory Optimization Advisor which will help you in migrating your normal...
2013-10-23
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PASS Summit 2014-Networking Dinner & After Hours
Yes, it is early, but I’ve set up the invitation for the fifth annual Monday Night Networking Dinner at the...
2013-10-23
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Unexpected truncation in FETCH
Yes I’m talking about FETCH as in a cursor, yes everyone hates cursors. But you know cursors are like anything...
2013-10-23
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Webcast Follow-Up: Choosing Your Clustered Index
Earlier this month, I presented a session for Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s on the selecting the clustered index for a...
2013-10-23
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Webcast Follow-Up: How Do Non-Clustered Indexes Improve Performance?
Earlier this month, I presented a session for Pragmatic WorksTraining on the T’s on the selecting the clustered index for a...
2013-10-23
958 reads
Back to basics: Transact-SQL programming fundamentals – (Part 1)
SQL Server users use Transact-SQL programming to create sets of statements for ad-hoc execution. The aim of the Transact-SQL programming...
2013-10-22
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds
By Steve Jones
At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert...
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
Forums
String_agg not working as needed
I'm trying to get this string_agg to put all the 'comments' into one result...
Vectors in SQL Server 2025
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Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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