Rows or Range, What’s the difference ?
With the release of Denali CTP3 came an extension of the over clause to allow for a sliding window of...
2011-09-22
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Dave Ballantynes blog
Unleashing my inner Viking, SQLBits and more…
In case you didn't know SQLBits 9 ,”Query across the Mersey”, is taking place in Liverpool from September 21st to...
2011-08-31
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Rolling your own index lookups
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been training developers in what they really need to know about SQL Server to...
2011-08-01
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Denali–IIF and CHOOSE
In Denali CTP3, we have a new of new functions to play with. For this post, im going to focus...
2011-07-19
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Non use of persisted data – Part deux
In my last blog I showed how persisted data may not be used if you have used the base data...
2011-06-20
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Itzik Ben-Gan is in town
Not that you would know it from the page below, but Itzik Ben-Gan is back in London to do a...
2011-06-17
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Non use of persisted data
Working at a client site, that in itself is good to say, I ran into a set of circumstances that...
2011-06-13
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Column order can matter
Ordinarily, column order of a SQL statement does not matter.
Select a,b,c
from table
will produce the same execution plan as Select c,b,a
from...
2011-06-06
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Kent .Net/SqlServer User Group – Upcoming events
At the Kent user group we have two upcoming events. Both are to be held at F-Keys Training suite http://f-keys.co.uk/...
2011-06-05
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SqlHerts–26th May 2011
Thanks to those who turned out to see my presentation at SqlHerts on Thursday 26thMay. Its a true pleasure to...
2011-05-29
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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
MBOX Email Conversion for Backup: Which Format Is Best?
I have several important email accounts stored in MBOX format from clients like Thunderbird...
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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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