SELECT COUNT(*) vs COUNT(1) vs COUNT(ColumnName)
What is the difference between COUNT(*), COUNT(1) and COUNT(ColumnName)? A mystery that will never be known… ok that was a...
2011-09-15
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Blog Posts
ColoradoSQL in September
All ColoradoSQL user group meetings start at 5:30 p.m. and provide food and refreshments. There is no cost to attend...
2011-09-14
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How pure is your data?
It was a normal Monday. I was going over some HA designs and planning the joys of setting up log...
2011-09-14
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I Don’t Know
I wanted to write this because lately I say “I don’t know” a couple times a day to my client/boss....
2011-09-14
627 reads
Normalize your Linked Server Names
This is a technique I’m sure many people are already using in their environments. Instead of using the actual name...
2011-09-14
3,598 reads
Speaking at SQL Saturday 89
With a late cancellation with one of our speakers a hole was opened on our speaker lineup. I reached out...
2011-09-14
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SQL Saturday #92 Lunch: Bend Area Gathering
There's nothing more I love than free food and SQL Server, no joke. I take my free food and SQL...
2011-09-14
527 reads
SQL Server “Denali”: Installing on a Virtual Machine
With CTP3 for SQL Server Denali available, a lot of us want to play with all the new cool features, as well as...
2011-09-14
1,722 reads
SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: Four new useful DMV
SQL Server 2011 “Denali” CTP3 introduced couple of new Dynamic Management Views (DMV). However, documentation says that some of them...
2011-09-14
738 reads
SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Installing on a Virtual Machine
With CTP3 for SQL Server 2012 (code name of “Denali”) available, a lot of us want to play with all the new...
2011-09-14
1,641 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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