Data Professionals at Work – a book-writing adventure
I love to write. It is how I express myself best. During the last fall I was pondering starting on...
2018-09-04
281 reads
Does The Order Of Index Columns Matter?
When beginning to learn SQL, at some point you learn that indexes can be created to help improve the performance...
2018-09-13 (first published: 2018-09-04)
5,037 reads
Does The Order Of Index Columns Matter?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
When beginning to learn SQL, at some point you learn that indexes can be created to help improve the performance of queries.
Creating your first...
2018-09-04
18 reads
Does The Order Of Index Columns Matter?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
When beginning to learn SQL, at some point you learn that indexes can be created to help improve the performance of queries.
Creating your first...
2018-09-04
9 reads
Looking at the PASS FY 2019 Budget
I just spent a few more minutes looking at the FY 2019 budget. It is hard to assess whether it’s...
2018-09-14 (first published: 2018-09-04)
1,541 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #106 – Trigger Headaches or Happiness
Since I took over the T-SQL Tuesday a few months ago, I decided I ought to host again. Especially since...
2018-09-04
288 reads
MongoDB 4.0.2 release
As i was discussing about MongoDB in my earlier blog, on NOSQL ACID stands for Atomic, Consistent, Isolation, and Durable...
2018-09-04
233 reads
Volunteer for the PASS NomCom
The call for applications for the Nominating Committee closes on Sep 10th. If you care about the future of PASS...
2018-09-04
278 reads
Don't cutoff yourself with dates in T-SQL - Did you know...
Almost all the applications we use have a lot of options. And, sometimes we even stumble across them by accident. Who’s ever heard something like “Normal user don’t even...
2018-09-04
28 reads
CCI Bulk Load Pitfalls 1 – ETL Framework and up-to-date Statistics
Intro
I would like to start a miniseries of blogs where I try to summarize lessons learned from large data loading...
2018-09-03
97 reads
Blogs
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
How I Built RAG for My Accounting App on Bedrock and pgvector
The first version of my accounting assistant could not find a single purchase of...
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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