How to Avoid Some Common Developer and DBA Mistakes
In March, I ran a Question of the Month that asked, “What is the biggest mistake/problem you ever found on...
2010-04-14
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A DMV a Day – Day 14
The DMV for Day 14 is sys.dm_os_wait_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about all the waits encountered by...
2010-04-14
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SQLSaturday #47 Coming to Phoenix!
Just set up SQLSaturday #47 in Phoenix for July 17, 2010 at Devry. Call for speakers is open, good to...
2010-04-13
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BLOB Report T-SQL Tuesday #005- Reporting
This month for my second submission into T-SQL Tuesday, I decided to go with something that provides some insight into...
2010-04-13
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Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RTM Available and Installed
Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie had a good post up yesterday that highlights some of the new features in Visual Studio 2010....
2010-04-13
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Announcing SQLSaturday #46 in Raleigh
SQLSaturday #46 will be held in Raleigh, NC on September 18, 2010, under the direction of Brett Tomson and team...
2010-04-13
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Southern New England SQL Server Users Group
Tomorrow, Wednesday April 14th, is the next SNESSUG meeting. We’re going to get a great presentation from Scott Abrants on...
2010-04-13
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Hosting a User Group Meeting - Day of "Bare Bones" Checklist
This actually came as a response to a tweet from Mike Walsh (Twitter | Blog). But here is the barebones checklist I...
2010-04-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #005 – Offloading Reporting (#TSQL2sDay)
Aaron Nelson (Blog|@SQLvariant) is hosting this months #TSQL2sDay with the theme of reporting. My post looks at some of things...
2010-04-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #005: Monitoring Reports with SSRS
This post is a T-SQL Tuesday Entry, hosted this week by Aaron Nelson on the topic of “Reporting”. (It got...
2010-04-13
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Blogs
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
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Pay for Performance
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
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