The Fastest Way to Combine DATE and TIME Data Types to a DATETIME
Recently while working with a table where there were two columns, one a DATE datatype and a second TIME datatype,...
2015-09-08 (first published: 2015-08-28)
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DwainCSQL
High Performance T-SQL using Code Patterns
What exactly does this mean? We’ve heard of “code patterns” in other programming languages, but what does it mean to...
2015-06-04 (first published: 2015-05-27)
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The Best Tool for Comparing Whether Two T-SQL Queries Produce Identical Results
There is one software tool that should be in every software developer’s tool chest. That is knowledge of the platform...
2015-05-26 (first published: 2015-05-21)
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Excel in T-SQL Part 2 – The Normal Distribution (NORM.DIST) Density Functions
Today’s blog will be the second in a multi-part series on replicating Excel functions in T-SQL, continuing with Excel’s NORM.DIST...
2015-05-14
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Excel in T-SQL Part 1 – HARMEAN, GEOMEAN and FREQUENCY
Today’s blog will be the first in a multi-part series on replicating Excel functions in T-SQL, starting with HARMEAN, GEOMEAN...
2015-04-29
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Ruminations on Writing Great T-SQL
Today we’re going to try to extend some advice that I once heard from SQL MVP Jeff Moden, which I...
2015-05-04 (first published: 2015-04-23)
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Stupid T-SQL Tricks – Part 3: A Zodiacal SQL
Today we’ll learn how you can use T-SQL to calculate your zodiac sign from your birthdate.
“Heeeeeere’s Johnny!” – Ed McMahon introducing...
2015-04-16
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An Even Faster Method of Calculating the Median on a Partitioned Heap
Back in 2013 I wrote an article kindly accepted for publication on the Simple Talk web site called Calculating the...
2015-04-08
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An Easter SQL
Since Easter is nearly upon us, I got to thinking once again about how challenging it is to calculate the...
2015-03-31
2,914 reads
Stupid T-SQL Tricks – Part 2: Retrieving Columns Set to the Current DEFAULT CONSTRAINT Value
“Heeeeeere’s Johnny!” – Ed McMahon introducing Johnny Carson for the Tonight Show
If you’re old enough to remember the Tonight Show hosted...
2015-03-19
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Data Modeling at your fingertips
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(2021-July-30) A picture is worth a thousand words, the same way a visual database schema...
How to put a SQL Server Database into Recovery Pending
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Daily Coping 30 Jul 2021
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
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Migrate SQL Sever 2012 Database To Server 2014 and Subsequent Versions
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Deploying SQL Server Automatically
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Setting data compression on a database or even server level possible?
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