Using a Staging Environment for Tracking Down Bugs
A discussion why having a staging environment with data that mirrors production is vital to tracking down issues.
Being able to...
2011-06-08
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A discussion why having a staging environment with data that mirrors production is vital to tracking down issues.
Being able to...
2011-06-08
2,146 reads
A discussion about nightly populated tables and how they have reduced SQL Server load.
What’s more important – speed or data accuracy/quality...
2011-06-05
1,309 reads
Why OR conditions in join statements should be avoided and an example fix.
OR conditions and join statements – some things just...
2011-06-03
2,859 reads
A discussion of how BPS uses a SQL exercise for candidates and why it is helpful.
At the Boston Public Schools,...
2011-06-01
2,715 reads
A followup to a post about subqueries with an estimation for how long it would take for the query to...
2011-05-30
3,638 reads
A discussion of how views give a more denormalized means for querying against normalized tables.
Ad-hoc reports are frequently requested at...
2011-05-28
855 reads
A discussion of how NEWID can be used to help randomize the results returned from a SQL query.
A scenario I...
2011-05-26
1,159 reads
A discussion of how joins significantly outperform subqueries and how this is more evident when OR conditions are involved.
SQL queries...
2011-05-25
971 reads
Thank you to everyone reading this site - Please enjoy your stay!
HelpWithSQL has hit double digits in posts! I hope everyone...
2011-05-24
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A discussion about SQL joins and subqueries with information about how to format join statements properly.
In any non-trivial task, developers...
2011-05-22
1,127 reads
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
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Comments posted to this topic are about the item Adding Bits I
I have a table, dbo.bittest, where I am testing an application response. This has this structure:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BitTest] ( [insertdate] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__BitTest__insertd__300F11AC] DEFAULT (getdate()), [a] [bit] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOMy application runs this code:
INSERT dbo.BitTest
(
insertdate,
a
)
VALUES
(DEFAULT, 'true')
GO
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