TDS Endpoints: SQL Server’s “Listener”
In the land of Oracle, if you want to prevent user access to your database, you stop the listener. Without...
2012-04-17
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Blog Posts
Where Have all the DBAs and DB DEVs Gone?
Last week the SQL community and in particular the blogosphere, was buzzing with interest noise following the Microsoft Learning site...
2012-04-17
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Windows Server 2012
Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson announced today at the Microsoft Management Summit 2012 in Las Vegas that the next...
2012-04-17
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"Soft Skills" books
In my professional development presentation, I list the "soft skills" books that I have found most helpful in my career to date. You can find...
2012-04-16
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10 must follow blogs that might not be in your list
There are few memes going around in the SQL world. Probably the most popular of them is TSQL Tuesday (#tsql2sday)....
2012-04-16
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Apply SP1 to SQL Server 2008R2 on active/active cluster.
While researching the steps required to service pack SQL Server on an active active cluster I came across a lot...
2012-04-16
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Creating a User without a Login – Contained Databases
In SQL Server 2012, we have a new feature: partially contained databases. In a previous post, I showed how to...
2012-04-16
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How to use Report Builder 3.0
I did a webinar during the 12 days of 2012 on how to use Report Builder 3.0. In this webinar...
2012-04-16
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Instant File Initialization Security Risk
A while ago I blogged about instant file initialization. A colleague of mine pointed out that there is a small...
2012-04-16
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PowerShell and T-SQL: Implementing UNION, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my experience this year with the Scripting Games. This is the first year I've competed and...
2012-04-16 (first published: 2012-04-12)
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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...
Forums
Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
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AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
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Question of the Day
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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