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
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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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Blogs
Daily Coping 26 May 2022
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Seeding an Availability Group Replica from Snapshot
Background If you’ve been using Availability Groups, you’re familiar with the replica seeding (sometimes...
Microsoft Build event announcements
By James Serra
There were a number of data platform announcements at Microsoft Build yesterday that I...
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Account logging - pwd change/db access change
Is there a way to continuously log account changes? For SQL accounts log for...
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Charindex values of a substring inside a long sentence
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