TSQL-Tuesday#050 – Automation
TweetG’day,
Well, it’s the first TSQL-Tuesday of 2014 and one of my New Years resolutions for 2014 is to contribute to...
2014-01-14
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measure twice, cut once.
Do you clean up after yourself?
TweetG’day folks,
I remember a fair few years ago when I was relativly new to TSQL creating a stored procedure that...
2014-01-13
1,273 reads
Installed SQL SERVER 2012? maybe you’d like to re-set your shortcuts!
TweetG’day,
Just a quick post on a seemingly trivial matter that others may find useful.
The post was prompted by the Simple-Talk...
2013-12-30
1,380 reads
SQL Saturday #252, Christchurch New Zealand
TweetSQL Saturday #252 Christchurch, New Zealand
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Well, these are exciting times for the Christchurch SQL SERVER User Group.
After a period of...
2013-07-28
1,179 reads
Dedicated Admin Connections (DAC) and SQL SERVER 2012 SSMS
TweetG’day,
As part of any SQL SERVER install that I do, I turn on Remote admin connections (using sp_configure) and open...
2013-04-07
5,202 reads
Multiple ALTER DATABASE SET options
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Did you know that you can actually combine multiple SET operations into a single ALTER DATABASE statement.
It’s true, you can!
Mostly...
2013-04-06
4,325 reads
SSPI error and Incorrect timing.
TweetG’day,
Recently, quite out of the blue I started seeing this error when I tried to log into my SQL instance...
2013-03-28
1,679 reads
Following good practice saves wasted time down the line.
TweetG’day,
Sometimes I come across what I call unusual coding practices. Developers usually have pressure on them to deliver and this...
2012-09-12 (first published: 2012-09-10)
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The first record on data page.
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I had a recent conversation about data pages. There was some debate about the location of the first record on...
2012-08-06
1,214 reads
2012 DDL for Roles
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I’m extremely pleased that Microsoft are continuing their commitment to provide full DDL to preform TSQL operations that have previously been preformed using stored...
2012-04-22
1,342 reads
Blogs
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This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers