Risky Behavior
An interesting debate from one of my editorials on risk. Some great points raised by everyone, but I still think...
2007-08-07
605 reads
Professional Development Plans Article on SSC
This was fun to write. It's a subject I'm passionate about and that too few in our field seem to...
2007-08-07
552 reads
No More SSNS
We've dropped an acronym!
In my rounds of the blogs today, a number of people have pointed out that SQL Server...
2007-08-03
544 reads
Celko, SQL, and SQLSaturday
Big news here in Orlando is that Joe Celko will be presenting two sessions at SQLSaturday on Nov 10. Once...
2007-08-02
480 reads
Revisit What You Know - Published on SSC
The article went live earlier this week. Didn't quite accomplish what I had hoped I think, which was to point...
2007-08-02
462 reads
Katmai July 2008 CTP is Out
I'm downloading now, and you need some sort of inviation to do so, but it's available and ready for you...
2007-08-01
619 reads
Undocumented use of the Columns_Updated() function
Q I need an easy way to see if a delete transaction has fired a trigger. Do you have any...
2007-08-01
639 reads
Midlands PASS Chapter - August 2, 2007
"Database Professional Toolkit" with Brian and Jeremy
Midlands PASS Chapter - August 2, 2007 Meeting
Sponsored by Red Gate Software
The Midlands PASS Chapter...
2007-07-31
1,568 reads
User Groups Moved to New Domain
We've just moved all the PASS chapters that were hosted on ~.ssc.com domains over to ~.sqlgroups.com. This is part of...
2007-07-27
1,573 reads
ApexSQL's Industry Experts program
If you're a Microsoft MVP, ApexSQL has brought back their industry experts program. You can find out more about it...
2007-07-25
1,744 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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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