Professional Productivity Books
Just as with the "soft skills" books, in my professional development presentation, I list the professional productivity books that I have found most helpful in my...
2012-04-18
920 reads
PASS Data Arch VC presents Mike Fal: Eating the Elephant: SQL Server Table Partitioning
Thursday’s (May 17th, 2012) PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter has Mike demonstrating some cool Table Partitioning scripts which I was...
2012-04-18
570 reads
Listing SQL Instances on a machine (or list of machines)
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Recently I was updating some of my Powershell scripts for managing SQL SERVER instances.
Generally, when writing a Powershell script to...
2012-04-17
5,766 reads
Backup Database Object
I saw this question in one of forums on backing up i.e. scripting out a database object. The problem is...
2012-04-17
1,844 reads
Merge Command In Sql Server
Merge Command:- Merge command is a new feature introduced in the SQL Server 2008. It can perform Update, Insert and...
2012-04-17
1,761 reads
Next up: #SQLSat107, HOU (and #SQLRally)
For me, conference season begins with the new year, and ends with the PASS Summit (sorry, November and December SQL...
2012-04-17
690 reads
Windows Server 2012
Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson announced today at the Microsoft Management Summit 2012 in Las Vegas that the next...
2012-04-17
1,029 reads
Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs #2: Keyword compare between Oracle and SQL Server
While attending a recent Windows Azure Quick Start, the presenter, Mike Benkovich (@mbenko) happened to show a table on his...
2012-04-17
603 reads
SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6 Released
This morning, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6, which is Build 10.50.2811.0. This Cumulative Update lists 20 fixes...
2012-04-17
2,752 reads
Let’s Meetup [Updated]!
I have a confession to make. I like to meet people who also work with SQL Server. There are so...
2012-04-17
705 reads
Blogs
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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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