Daily Coping 19 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to switch off tech an hour before bedtime. I read at night often, so this is a challenging one. However, I decided to give this...
2023-01-19
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Impact of Eliminating Implicit Conversions in JDBC Driver
Problem Recently I had a situation where I was looking at a SQL Instance due to a contractor who controls the system wanting to drop
The post Impact of Eliminating...
2023-01-27 (first published: 2023-01-18)
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Connecting to PostgreSQL from Azure Data Studio
I’ve been doing a bit of work with PostgreSQL as part of my work with Redgate. PostgreSQL is a relational platform that is open source, free to use, available...
2023-01-18
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Heading Back to VS Live in March 2023
I’m speaking at VS Live in March 2023 for the Las Vegas show. This time it’s at Planet Hollywood, which is a hotel a new place for me. I’m...
2023-01-18
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Logic App errors out when using variables in a SharePoint Action
I have a Logic App that reads out a SharePoint library and stores all the documents found into Azure Blob Storage (ADF only supports Lists). I was trying to...
2023-01-30 (first published: 2023-01-18)
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Daily Coping 18 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to say positive things to the people you meet today. In general, I don’t encounter a lot of people on any day, but I do...
2023-01-18
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Daily Coping 17 Jan 2023
Today’s coping tip is to get moving. Ideally do something outside. Taking time to walk the dogs outside, heading to the dog park to get them, and me, some...
2023-01-18
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SQL Bits 2023
I’m honored to be heading back to SQL Bits 2023. I was selected to deliver one session, in the professional development track. With so many people submitting, I’m not...
2023-01-17
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Encryption, Comparing your Options in SQL Server
The question of encryption seems to be coming up a lot recently. I’ve had a number of people asking me about how to go about encrypting SQL Server. SQL...
2023-01-25 (first published: 2023-01-17)
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No Flyway Baseline No Migration
In my experiments with the Flyway CLI (fwcli), I’m finding some interesting behavior, some of which is catching my by surprise. This post looks at the baseline command and...
2023-01-16
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Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
Forums
Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in...
AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
Comments posted to this topic are about the item AI Experience Gap that we...
Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers