SQL Saturday #39, New York, New York
A town so big they named it twice.
If you’re not excited about SQL Saturday in NYC this weekend… why not?...
2010-04-20
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Agent
Found out this week – that we should be restarting this service at least once a week ! (thus allowing the CPU...
2010-04-20
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Staying Current with SQL Server Builds
There was some conversation on Twitter about how to get notification when new Cumulative Updates are released for SQL Server...
2010-04-20
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Stepping Stone Cert II
Back on March 30, I wrote about a Stepping Stone Certification that seems to be missing between the MCM and...
2010-04-20
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Whats a Good Rule for Max Degree of Parallelism?
Introduction
I am one of those people that believe that anything worth doing is worth having a script to do it....
2010-04-20
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A DMV a Day – Day 19
The DMV for Day 19 is sys.dm_os_wait_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about all the waits encountered by...
2010-04-19
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Goggle PowerMeter Update
As I have mentioned before, I have a TED 5000 electric power monitor installed in my house that monitors and...
2010-04-19
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How Do I Find SSIS Packages that Exist in Multiple Folders?
Introduction
If you are using SQL Storage for your SSIS packages and have multiple folders to make life easier then there...
2010-04-19
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Just one mirror
You can only have one mirror of a SQL Server database in SQL Server 2005/2008. I researched that last year...
2010-04-19
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Missing European PASS
As most of you know, the Icelandic volcano has played havoc with travel plans for speakers coming from the US...
2010-04-19
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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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in...
AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
Comments posted to this topic are about the item AI Experience Gap that we...
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