Mid-Week Update
Just a short mid-week update, David Postlethwaite has been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Vienna which is being held...
2015-01-15
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Just a short mid-week update, David Postlethwaite has been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Vienna which is being held...
2015-01-15
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Last week, Boris Hristov (b|t), the organizer of #SQLHangout, invited William Durkin (b|t) and me to a SQL Hangout about transitioning...
2015-01-15
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Different ways to find the weekend between two given dates. The SQL requires @begindate and @endate paramteters to be entered...
2015-01-14
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Steve:
This is James’ second post on creating SQL tools with PowerShell and Windows forms. James is a DBA responsible for...
2015-01-19 (first published: 2015-01-14)
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Long has the question been asked “Which Microsoft tool do I use for dashboards?”. SSRS, Excel, PowerView, Report Builder and PerformancePoint...
2015-01-14
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VMware has recently announced an online event for February 2nd that you don’t want to miss! Whatever it is, it’s going...
2015-01-14
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This is a great little feature in SQL Prompt that I wrote about at SQLServerCentral. It’s Current statement Execution, which...
2015-01-14
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There’s power in naming things. Supposedly some types of magic are even based on knowing the correct names for things....
2015-01-20 (first published: 2015-01-14)
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If you have two columns in an Excel sheet, and you want to conditionally format fields in the second column...
2015-01-14
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Today, I am excited and humbled to learn that I am awarded “Rookie of the Year – 2014” by MSSQLTips.com.
I have...
2015-01-14
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A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers