A 96 hour meeting
I didn’t think about it this way, but it made perfect sense after I read an essay. Recently my team...
2010-04-08
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Test Driving a LinkedIn Poll
Had this on my list for a while, thinking maybe it’s a way to leverage the investment in my (your)...
2010-04-07
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How Silly
Have you ever done anything that made you feel like a dunderhead? Maybe a little bone-headed, thick, numb-skullish?
Here is my...
2010-04-07
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How Do I Identify Invalid or Unneeded Logins?
Introduction
I was looking at one of my servers and was caught off-guard by how many individual users had been granted...
2010-04-07
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SQLSaturday Orlando 2010 - The Planning Begins
Believe it or not, it's already time to start planning for Orlando's next SQLSaturday. Andy Warren and I had our...
2010-04-07
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2010 Goals – First Quarter Review
Overall, not too bad for the first quarter, but definitely some areas I need to pick up the slack on.
Community...
2010-04-07
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Use a Clustered Index
I stumbled across this clustered index test from Hugo Kornelis recently from a post in the forums. I think I’d...
2010-04-07
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New MSSQLTips Article: Nesting Database Roles in SQL Server
I'm still way behind on my writing for the year, thanks to fighting off stronger than usual migraines and now...
2010-04-07
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A DMV a Day – Day 7
I have three different DMVs for Day 7. The first one is sys.dm_db_missing_index_group_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns summary...
2010-04-07
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Catching Transient CPU Spikes Using SQL Trace
Catching Transient CPU Spikes Using SQL Trace If there was one thing I wish everyone who works with SQL Server would...
2010-04-06
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Blogs
Why AI isn’t paying off yet, and what to invest in first
Why isn’t AI paying off yet? Drawing on lessons from digital transformation, Joyful Craftsmen...
Flyway Tips: Analytics Platforms (Snowflake and Databricks)
By Steve Jones
I’m really excited about some growth in Flyway support. I’ve been asking about this...
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,...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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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