Reboot
Apologies, a minor reboot of the db server this morning. Somewhere we're leaking memory, more details later, so I had...
2005-07-14
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RunAs
When I started working at JD Edwards, I was a corporate administrator
on the windows network. Since the DBAs were a...
2005-07-12
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It's always something
As Phill posts in his blog, we've had a couple interesting threads in the forums where the respect and tolerance...
2005-07-11
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This is lovely
I got a note that someone thought they shouldn't have to register on
the site and get a newsletter to read...
2005-07-07
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What Is Really Interesting?
When I wrote the editorial for today on A Humbling Experience,
I was sure that it would generate a bunch of...
2005-07-07
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Interviewing a DBA
Andy and I had an interesting question on this today. He's trying to
hire a DBA and he had his first...
2005-07-05
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To Blog or Not To Blog
Blogging seemed like a big deal in 2004. At the 2003 PASS Summit, we were told by Microsoft that they...
2005-06-29
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My First Blog!
At least here 🙂 Normally I blog over at http://www.dkranch.net/
That's usually personal stuff going on in my life, so I'll try...
2005-06-28
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Courtney Woolum
A longer bio or profile text can go here in Markdown. There should be a lot more here
2001-01-01
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2001-01-01
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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)
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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