SSWUG Expo..I'm up!
I am proud to say that one of the webcasts I taped last year for SSWUG is part of the...
2012-04-26
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Blog Posts
The Mentoring Experiment – Cycle 2
It’s been a long time, almost a year since Andy Warren and I kicked off The Mentoring Experiment. We had...
2012-04-26
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UF Dissolves Computer Science Program, Increases Funding for “Future Jobs”
In a bold and decisive move earlier today, the University of Florida has decided to dissolve their computer science education...
2012-04-26 (first published: 2012-04-24)
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2012 (2011) Data Breach Report
I had a chance over the weekend to finish reading the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report. It’s a compilation...
2012-04-25
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Creating a Symmetric Key in SQL Server
Symmetric keys in SQL Server are recommended for encrypting data in columns. They are a good balance of security and...
2012-04-25
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Enterprise Data Warehouse Architecture Options
Enterprise Data Warehouse Architecture Options
Of course, your architecture depends on your business requirements along with technical, historical, and political factors....
2012-04-25
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Setup database mirroring and log shipping together
SQL Server has multiple high availability solutions. Comparing with cluster, database mirroring and logshipping are easier to setup, and they...
2012-04-25 (first published: 2012-04-21)
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SQL Azure Federation
What is Federation?
Federation is a database object like other objects such as tables, views, stored procedures or triggers.
It is also known as Sharding.
There can be multiple federations in a database.
It is...
2012-04-25
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SQL Azure Federation
What is Federation?
Federation is a database object like other objects such as tables, views, stored procedures or triggers.It is also known as...
2012-04-25
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Change Package Properties Using Parameters–SSIS 2012
In DTS, changing package properties was close to impossible (the less we talk about DTS, the better). Package configurations introduced...
2012-04-24
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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