Updated Thoughts on Antivirus on SQL Servers
I hate running antivirus on SQL Servers. I agree antivirus is a necessary evil on most systems, but I don't...
2012-04-30 (first published: 2012-04-24)
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Blog Posts
You need to run DBCC CheckDB regularly
You never know when you’ll encounter corruption. It can happen at any time, usually due to some sort of hardware...
2012-04-30
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Always use Configuration Manager for changing service account
When your service account is expired/disabled or is not having access than sql service could not able to start and you may...
2012-04-28
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Exposing OData Endpoints using the ASP.Net MVC Web API
The new Web API that comes with ASP.Net MVC 4 has been getting a lot of posts on creating RESTful...
2012-04-28
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SQL Saturday 130 Deck & Scripts Live
Hello Dear Reader, greetings from SQL Saturday 130 in Jacksonville. This is just a quick post to say that the...
2012-04-28
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Appending New Rows Only
I saw a question in the forums related to inserting new rows into a SQL Server table only if they...
2012-04-27
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Big Apple SQL - SQLSaturday #158 NYC Announced!
Come this August 4th, 2012, the Big Apple will be baking, but not just because of the hot summer day...
2012-04-27
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Comments on Acceptable Behavior
Here’s the situation. We’re absolutely falling down as men and professionals. Ladies, feel free to read on and comment, but...
2012-04-27 (first published: 2012-04-23)
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Cool Data Visualization
I attended a course from Edward Tufte a few years ago on Data Visualization, and while I learned some neat...
2012-04-27
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Slacking Off: Totally TED
Lately I’ve taken to watching TED talks in the evening. They’re thought-provoking, usually entertaining, and, best of all when watching...
2012-04-27
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Blogs
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...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
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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