Sub query pass through
Occasionally in forums and on client sites I see conditional subqueries in statements. This is where the developer has decided...
2013-03-26 (first published: 2013-03-22)
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Dave Ballantynes blog
SQL Saturday 194
On the weekend of the 9th March 2013, the second SQL Saturday in the UK occurred. A massive thank you...
2013-03-12
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A year of SQL Lunchs
Time does fly, and happy birthday SQL Lunch UK.
It has been a year since the first SQLLunch UK, and over...
2013-02-17
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Deploying SSRS artefacts using Powershell ( Simply)
As ive stated in the past, i’m presently part of a team on an ALM project for a major UK...
2013-02-12
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Photo cataloguer
If you are anything like me, by know you will have a few thousand digital images spread across multiple directories...
2013-01-20
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Scaling out SQLLunch UK
As you may be aware, I have been running a lunch time user group ‘SQLLunch UK’ having stolen drawn inspiration...
2013-01-11
664 reads
SSDT – TSQL Unit testing in multiple environments
Late in December, one the long awaited portions of functionality inside SSDT was released to an eager public, that being...
2013-01-07
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When is a whitespace not a whitespace ?
As I'm sure I must have mentioned in the past, I’m presently involved in a large ALM project at a...
2013-01-04
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SQL Saturday 194 - Exeter
Many kudos goes to Jonathan and Annette Allen and the others on the team for confirming SQL Saturday 194 in...
2012-12-06
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My new favourite traceflag
As we are all aware, there are a number of traceflags. Some documented, some semi-documented and some completely undocumented. Here...
2012-12-06
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Blogs
Who’s the Winningest Coach (with AI Help)
By Steve Jones
I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
Forums
Basic Always On Groups Randomly Stop Synchronizing
In one of my environments I have 3 pairs of Always On SQL 2022...
Learning From Breakage
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Python in Action to Auto-Generate an Optimized PostgreSQL Index Strategy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Python in Action to Auto-Generate...
Question of the Day
Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers