Recipe 2: Writing Extended Events to a table
Welcome to the second recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the...
2022-02-23
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SpaghettiDBA
Recipe 1: Writing Extended Events to a CSV file
Welcome to the first recipe of this Extended Events cookbook! You will find the first blog post of the series here and you can browse all recipes with the...
2022-03-04 (first published: 2022-02-22)
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10 DBA recipes with XESmartTarget
Some time ago, I started a project called XESmartTarget. I find it super useful and you should probably know about it. It’s totally my fault if you’re not using...
2022-02-21
108 reads
SQLSaturday is dead, long live DataSaturdays
This is a very brief post to inform you that PASS has died, killed by the for-profit company behind it. That’s sad beyond words, but we, as a community,...
2020-12-28 (first published: 2020-12-18)
1,017 reads
Replaying Workloads to a different Database
One of the features I was asked to implement for WorkloadTools is the ability to replay commands to a database name different from the one recorded in the source...
2020-04-09 (first published: 2020-03-31)
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Performing a real-time replay with WorkloadTools
In a previous blog post, I showed you how to use WorkloadTools to replay a workload in two different scenarios. However, there is a third scenario that is worth...
2020-03-12 (first published: 2020-03-03)
360 reads
Collecting Diagnostic data from multiple SQL Server instances with dbatools
Keeping their SQL Server instances under control is a crucial part of the job of a DBA. SQL Server offers a wide variety of DMVs to query in order...
2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-11-24)
872 reads
Troubleshooting “Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user”
This is one of those typical blog posts that I write for my future self, the guy who keeps fixing the same stuff over and over and forgets what...
2019-08-28 (first published: 2019-08-16)
2,768 reads
Workload replay with WorkloadTools
In my last post, I described how to capture a workload to a file, in order to run a replay against your target environment at a later time. Well,...
2019-07-08 (first published: 2019-06-20)
1,155 reads
Life behind a proxy server: downloading content for SSMS Help Viewer
Life behind a proxy server can be problematic. Not every software out there is tested correctly for proxy interaction and oftentimes the experience for the corporate user is a...
2019-05-22 (first published: 2019-05-09)
585 reads
Blogs
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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