Salaried employee vs contractor
Are you a salaried employee looking to switch to a W-2 or 1099 contractor? (For an explanation of W-2 and...
2011-11-02
4,131 reads
James Serra's Blog
Miss SQLBits 9? No problem, all videos are online
All the videos for this popular conference are online or will be soon (48 of them). Take a look at the...
2011-10-31
2,275 reads
SQL Server Analysis Services Performance Guide published
Another must read white-paper: Analysis Services 2008 R2 Performance Guide.
This white paper describes how business intelligence developers can apply query...
2011-10-28
2,525 reads
Miss TechEd Australia 2011? No problem, all videos are online
As you may know, the TechEd in the U.S. is not the only one. There have been many all over the...
2011-10-26
860 reads
What is Microsoft TAP and RDP?
Technology Adoption Program (TAP) and Rapid Deployment Program (RDP) are ways for Microsoft to get early feedback on new products or product...
2011-10-24
2,264 reads
SSIS – Can’t Enable/Disable within Data Flow Tab
This is my biggest gripe with SSIS: I have a data flow task, and within that I’m pulling data from...
2011-10-21
3,040 reads
Microsoft and HP’s Database Consolidation Appliance
Microsoft and HP have announced another appliance, called the Database Consolidation Appliance (see my blog about the other two appliances). ...
2011-10-19
1,786 reads
Performance tips for SSAS
Over the past few years I have developed a list of ways to improve performance in SSAS and in two...
2011-10-17
4,144 reads
Formula engine and storage engine in SSAS
In SSAS, to improve query performance, it’s important to understand what happens inside analysis services when a query is run. ...
2011-10-14
1,240 reads
SQL Server 2012 and other PASS annoucements
Some announcements and notes from SQL PASS Summit 2011, going on this week:
It was announced that the official name of the...
2011-10-13
1,642 reads
Blogs
Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency
In Part 1, we saw how ‘Vamana’ represents vectors as nodes, connects them with...
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
Forums
Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in...
AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
Comments posted to this topic are about the item AI Experience Gap that we...
Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers