T-SQL Tuesday #098–2018 Goals
A great topic for T-SQL Tuesday this time from @sqlmal. It’s Setting Learning Goals for 2018, and it’s a topic...
2017-12-12
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SQL Server Failed to Open Loopback Connection – What?
I could not read my error log on one of my local SQL Servers, when I executed the following code:
EXEC...
2017-12-12
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T-SQL Tuesday #97 – Setting learning goals for 2018
T-SQL Tuesday. Each month a different blogger hosts Adam Machanic’s (b/t) blog party. The host comes up with a topic...
2018-01-01 (first published: 2017-12-12)
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When Best Practices Aren’t Best
Most everyone is familiar with the term best practices. This phrase describes an industry-specific design or methodology that can be...
2017-12-12
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The Eleven Days of Festivus 2017
Last year, I celebrated the holiday season by blogging daily during the 11 days leading up to Festivus, writing about...
2017-12-12
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Reducing the Number of Reads in Your Queries
“A-Bridged” – reducing reads – get it? I’m sorry you’re reading this. Photo by Jamie Street on UnsplashIn last week’s post, we went over how...
2017-12-12
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Reducing the Number of Reads in Your Queries
In last week's post, we went over how one of best ways to improve query performance was to reduce the number of reads that your query has to do.
Less reads...
2017-12-12
14 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #97 – We don’t need no Education! (or do we?)
TweetG’day,
Well, it’s T-SQL Tuesday time again -the blog party started by Adam Machanic (blog | twitter) and this month hosted by Mala Mahadevan. This...
2017-12-12
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Learning Through Blogging and Speaking
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday prompt created by Mala Mahadevan. T-SQL Tuesday was created by...
2017-12-12
171 reads
Learning Through Blogging and Speaking
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday prompt created by Mala Mahadevan. T-SQL Tuesday was created by Adam Machanic and is a way for SQL users...
2017-12-12
14 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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Risk Vs Reward, The never ending ROI discussion.
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Using CHOOSE()
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Re-Seeding a Broken Log Shipping Secondary (Without Touching the Primary)
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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