Where Is My SQL Server Errorlog?
If you need to find the SQL Server ErrorLog in a hurry and don’t want to spend 30 minutes drilling into every drive on the server: “I don’t watch...
2022-11-21 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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Daily Coping 1 Nov 2022
Today’s coping tip is to be kind to yourself. Remember progress takes time. I’ve spent most of this year trying to better manage my weight and become healthier. I...
2022-11-01
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SQL Homework – July 2022 – Getting ready for the next time you have to look for a job.
Back in July I suggested that you get your resume up to date. It’s something I’d wish I’d kept up ... Continue reading
2022-11-14 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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Create Service Principal Names Along with a Managed Service Account
In a few previous articles, I have talked a lot about Managed Service Accounts (MSA) and Service Principal Names (SPN) and given examples of managing the separately. As a...
2022-11-11 (first published: 2022-11-01)
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The Reason We Use Only One Git Repo For All Environments of an Azure Data Factory Solution
I’ve seen a few people start Azure Data Factory (ADF) projects assuming that we would have one source control repo per environment, meaning that you would attach a Git...
2022-11-09 (first published: 2022-10-31)
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Production Code (T-SQL Tuesday #156)
Background
T-SQL Tuesday - the brainchild of Adam Machanic and coordinated by Steve Jones (blog|Twitter) is a monthly blog party on the second Tuesday of each month. And I will...
2022-10-31
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Returning to PASS Summit
In just a couple of weeks, the PASS Summit will return to Seattle, Washington. This one will be extra special, since it’s going to be the first in-person Summit...
2022-10-31
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Paid Flyway Advantages–Undo and Check
The Community edition of Flyway has some nice basic features, and it works well for many people. However, it requires you to do a lot of the heavy lifting...
2022-10-31
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T-SQL Tuesday #155 Round Up
It’s time to look back at the 155th blog party. I was the host this month, asking about Dynamic SQL. I got quite a few responses, which I’ve gone...
2022-11-01 (first published: 2022-10-31)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 10-24-2022
Hello Dear Reader! This past week was an extremely fun time over at the Tales From The Field show! Fall is here, the leaves change and fall in Florida...
2022-10-31
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Blogs
A Last Minute Trip to the EU
By Steve Jones
My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer...
Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency
In Part 1, we saw how ‘Vamana’ represents vectors as nodes, connects them with...
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...
Forums
Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
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AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
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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