SQL Profiler – Wild Card Filter on TextData
WARNING: This may be very obvious to most of you. However, several people that I have encountered did not realize...
2009-08-21
37,299 reads
The Kindle Update - A Month on the iPhone/iTouch
Ever since my Kindle broke, I've been reading on my iTouch for the most part. I've been using both the...
2009-08-21
782 reads
A True Sense of Community
We have a thread in our forums that many of the participants refer to as "The THREAD." It's a long...
2009-08-21
726 reads
Ideas are a work of art
When you think about it, most of us in the IT field are paid to solve problems. Sure there are...
2009-08-21
389 reads
Costco & Blueberry Muffins
You’ve probably heard of Costco, one of those warehouse type stores that sells stuff in bulk. We buy stuff there...
2009-08-20
581 reads
Things to consider...
Hi.... I found some interesting COOL and Caution stuff on sql server, Will try to keep this updated....Cool Stuff:
1.SSMS: now...
2009-08-20
578 reads
Two Book Recommendations
I have two new books that I can heartily recommend. This isn’t a review of either book since I’ve only...
2009-08-20
576 reads
Practical or Silly?
I won $25 from Thinkgeek via Intel from a twitter contest. Can you follow that? I posted a question for...
2009-08-20
1,103 reads
Managing Your Database
It seems that I see posts like this one more often than I'd like. Or at least some variation on...
2009-08-20
870 reads
Partitioning Strangeness
Ran across this in a recent class while covering partitioning. Start by creating a standard partitioning function and the scheme,...
2009-08-19
2,511 reads
Blogs
Are Blogs Still Relevant? I Think They Still Are.
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
Forums
Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Slow - Linked server query
Hi I have this slow query that is pulling data from a linked server....
Too Many Choices
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Too Many Choices
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