SQL Audit 302 – Deploying the Audit Solution with Powershell
This is it, ladies and gentlemen. One last post and I promise I won’t mention the word audit for at...
2012-08-29
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Free Second Shot offer for Microsoft Certification Exams
Nothing for me to really say except if you mess up, you get a free second chance Click HERE to see...
2012-08-29
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September 2012 Speaking Events
September is another busy month of speaking events for me and I thought I’d share them with you so maybe...
2012-08-29
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SQL in the City – FREE Training
Is SQL in the City coming to a town near you? The events are being held in New York, Austin,...
2012-08-29
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Upcoming Speaking Events
I will be the inaugural speaker for the Northern Colorado Database Professionals on September 17, in Loveland, CO. I will...
2012-08-28
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Suppressing namespace attributes in nested select statements when using FOR XML workaround
I was helping out on the forums the other day with a user who had stumbled across the quirk of...
2012-08-28
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Lookup transformation in SSIS: Performance Improvements
There are 2 suggestions I hear about when performance tuning the Lookup transformation on a large dimension table when getting...
2012-08-28
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) How-To: Check Database Size with DBCC_pdw_showspaceused
There is a way to view the size of a particular PDW database using the DBCC_pdw_showspaceused command via the NEXUS...
2012-08-28
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These People Are Exceptional
I should know. I was one of the judges of this year’s Exceptional DBA of the Year award. I had...
2012-08-28
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SQL Server Guest User – Still a Serious Security Threat
One of the security recommendation inside SQL Server Security Best Practice white paper for guest user is that, to disable...
2012-08-31 (first published: 2012-08-28)
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Blogs
Are Blogs Still Relevant? I Think They Still Are.
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
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Pay for Performance
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Slow - Linked server query
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Too Many Choices
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers