SQL Server 2012 – new conversion functions

With SQL Server 2012 comes a new set of conversion functions, that will certainly help doing type casts and conversions...

SQLSaturday Goes International

Looking at 2011 and the planned events so far for 2012 it’s easy to see that SQLSaturday is starting to...

Contracting is business not employment: Read the small print

This post is about a contracting in UK. Some of terms mentioned here will not mean a great deal to...

Creating a Service Master Key in SQL Server

The basis for all the encryption in SQL Server is the Service Master Key, which is the top of the...

How many times the T-SQL inside the CTE is executed?

Introduction

Common Table Expression (CTE) has become very popular these days. However, many users of CTE still have a myth that...

Junk dimensions

Junk dimensions are dimensions that contain miscellaneous data such as flags and indicators.  When designing a data warehouse, you might...

PASS Summit 2012 Evaluation Results

I say it all the time because it’s worth repeating, feedback is a gift. Good, bad or indifferent (well, not...

Pitching Pebbles – Using Certificates to Grant Privileges

If you fill the jar with pebbles first, you'll never have room for the big rocks.
I’m sure you’ve heard the...

Read About SQLSatuday #100 & See the Coffee Cup Too!

Here’s a great post from Karla Landrum about her trip (with husband Rodney) to Brazil for the milestone making #100....

SELECT GetDate() – 30 AS [This actually works??];

I just ran across this in a piece of code (that I didn’t write):
… WHERE Thing >GETDATE()- 30
Aaaand it works....