PASS Summit 2012
I sure hope you’re planning on attending the PASS Summit this year. If you’re not, you might want to reconsider....
2012-06-19
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Blog Posts
Speaking at PASS Summit 2012
Today I’m thrilled and humbled to announce that I will be speaking 3 times at PASS Summit in November 6-9! ...
2012-06-19
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SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 2
Last night, Microsoft released SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update 2, which is Build 11.0.2325.0. It has 37 fixes in...
2012-06-19
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Status Column in SSISDB Catalog Database
I occasionally review the search terms people use to get to this blog and secretly celebrate knowing my post helped...
2012-06-19
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The First Interview: What companies do that make me want to run far, far away
I’ve recently been asked for some clarification about this statement (from my last blog post): “This is EXACTLY the kind...
2012-06-19
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T-SQL Tuesday 31: SSIS 2012 Logging
Topic for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Aaron Nelson (@SQLVariant) is Logging.
I like to think of logging as a...
2012-06-19 (first published: 2012-06-12)
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Two New Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008 R2
Microsoft has released two new Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008 R2. The first one is SQL Server 2008 R2...
2012-06-19
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X-XMLA: iv. Deploying Databases with XMLA
The fourth segment in this series focuses on using XMLA to deploy databases. When you create SQL Server Analysis Services...
2012-06-19
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Colorado SQL - June 2012
All ColoradoSQL user group meetings start at 5:30 p.m. and provide food and refreshments. There is no cost to attend...
2012-06-18
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Determine Index Fragmentation in a SQL Server Database
Index fragmentation can adversely affect query response time. When accessing data through an index, SQL Server must read each page...
2012-06-18
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Blogs
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...
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...
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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