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I try to keep a pretty tight lid on the comments to the blog because there's a lot of SPAM...
2010-03-25
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Managing the Size of the Security Cache (TokenAndPermUserStore) in SQL 2005
Introduction
In an earlier post I walked through the diagnosis of a problem with TokenAndPermUserStore bloat in SQL 2005.In this post...
2010-03-25
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Goodbye Live Spaces, Hello WordPress
After blogging on Live Spaces for a 517 days, I’ve made the difficult decision to move to my own domain...
2010-03-25
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Meeting Offsite and a Little Vacation
I’m heading to our “publishing summit” today at one of the Cambridge University buildings. I’m a part of the group...
2010-03-24
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Creating SQL Server 2008 Databases with T-SQL
Imagine you need to create a database on a customer’s machine, but you don’t know how they have their file...
2010-03-24
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PASS Update #27
I’m just back from the March 2010 Board meeting and it went better than usual (for any meeting). Most of...
2010-03-24
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Getting Stubborn Chief Executive Officers to Listen: Speak Their Language
After consecrating several posts on workplace bullying, and hearing our great Steve Jones rant about Toshiba’s lack of action regarding...
2010-03-24
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Avoiding Plagiarism
Having gone to an academic magnet school, I have quite a few friends who are teaching at the university level...
2010-03-24
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Adding a Column to Every Table
I am Script. I will update your database.
Despite the best laid plans, sometimes circumstances or project scope change and the...
2010-03-24
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A Personal Story about Networking
This is not a technical or SQL Server post, but it does illustrate the power of networking.
We recently took my...
2010-03-24
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Flyway Tips: Analytics Platforms (Snowflake and Databricks)
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I’m really excited about some growth in Flyway support. I’ve been asking about this...
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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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