Shuttle Endeavor last mission STS-134: I felt the shockwave
I witnessed a piece of history today at 8:56am; the last voyage of shuttle Endeavor on its STS-134 mission. It was...
2011-05-16
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Business Intelligence & SQL Server Decaffeinated
T-SQL: Identifying, inserting and removing spaces in strings
Frequently, when working with strings you will need to identify, insert or remove spaces before, after or in between characters.
For example, you may...
2011-05-11
3,833 reads
T-SQL UPPER(): Change an all lowercase string to uppercase
The T-SQL UPPER() command allows you to change a lowercase string to an uppercase string.
For example, it will allow you to change the word...
2011-04-05
1,720 reads
T-SQL LOWER(): Change an all uppercase string to lower case
The T-SQL LOWER() command allows you to change an uppercase string to a lowercase string.
For example, it will allow you to change the word...
2011-04-02
914 reads
Word Macro to load a Data Warehouse
Recently I came across a very specific requirement for a Data Warehouse project for one of our customers. Due to...
2011-04-01
563 reads
SSAS errors: Errors in the metadata manager. The dimension with ID of ‘xxx’ referenced by the ‘yyy’ cube, does not exist.
When deploying or processing a cube or dimension you may encounter an error similar to this:
Errors in the metadata manager. The...
2011-03-22
1,269 reads
SSIS Foreach File Enumerator returns more files than expected by appending a wildcard (*) to the file mask
While working on a recent project for a customer that involved importing both Excel 97-2003 and Excel 2007/2010 files, I was...
2011-03-21
1,317 reads
Differences between Merge and Union All transformations in SSIS
What are the differences between Merge and Union All transformations in SSIS ?
The first and most obvious difference is that Merge...
2011-03-03
1,611 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers