SQLSaturday #171 Pittsburgh Prep Continues
Hey, did I mention that Pittsburgh is having a SQLSaturday this year?
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Photo:Herbert Spencer, used under Creative Commons...
2012-07-30
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#GetHawt – The Summer 2012 Edition
Jen McCown started a #GetHawt set of posts last year and I think it went well. It must have, so...
2012-07-30
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August 2012 S3OLV Meeting
Well well well. It has certainly been a long time between announcements on the blog about meetings for the Las Vegas SQL Server Users Group. We have had to...
2012-07-30
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August 2012 S3OLV Meeting
Well well well. It has certainly been a long time between announcements on the blog about meetings for the Las...
2012-07-30
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Syncing your contacts
In the same vein as my blog post about Syncing your calendars, I wanted to post how to sync your contacts...
2012-07-30
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SQL Server Orphanage – Using sp_change_users_login to find and fix all orphaned SQL users
Every wonder who all your orphaned SQL Server users are on your server? Just run the script below and copy...
2012-07-30
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Video Enable PowerPivot Add-in
This is one of our first PowerPivot video tutorials and this short 1 minute tutorial we show how to enable...
2012-07-30
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SQL Server : Dedicated Administrator Connections
Think about a scenario : People are complaining about your production database server.Many users are getting continuous time out error. Rest...
2012-08-01 (first published: 2012-07-30)
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How to move master and resource system databases?
I received an phone call from a friend today asking how to move master and resource system databases in Microsoft...
2012-07-29
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The effects of an SSD on SQL Server Performance
I. Introduction A little while ago, my wonderful wife Renee got a Solid State Drive (SSD) for me. Being a...
2012-07-29
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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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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