Speaking at SQL Saturday Chicago
I am so excited and honored to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Chicago on...
2019-02-15
109 reads
Achievement Unlocked – SQL Bits
Several weeks ago, while on a flight traveling home from San Francisco, I received an exciting email. I had submitted...
2019-02-15
493 reads
Practical Web Scraping–Getting Started
As part of my learning goals for 2018, I wanted to work through various books. This is part of my...
2019-02-15
1,376 reads
Partitioning 4: Finding partitioning in DMVs and Object Explorer
Happy Friday! Today’s post will be light on the performance side and instead, I’m going to talk about how to...
2019-02-15
2,012 reads
ASF 019 video invitation
Check how many bicycles he has got at home and where was the destination of last year of a 400...
2019-02-15
127 reads
Speaker at SQL Saturday’s Guatemala city 2019
I’m very happy to announce that for the second year in a row I will be participating as speaker in...
2019-02-15
199 reads
Learn about the State of Database DevOps Next Week
It’s a week to my webinar with Donovan Brown (bt, yg), leader of the League of Extraordinary Cloud DevOps Advocates,...
2019-02-14
236 reads
DBA Myths: Can a differential backup get bigger than the full backup?
The thing about DBA Myths is that they are generally widespread and widely believed. At least I believed this one...
2019-03-04 (first published: 2019-02-14)
2,469 reads
Undercover Catalogue 0.2.1, Fixes An Issue With The Recording Of Unicode And MAX Datatype Lengths
Please see https://sqlundercover.com/undercover-catalogue-0-2/ for full details on the Undercover Catalogue and how to obtain it.
We’ve spotted an issue where unicode...
2019-02-14
142 reads
Partitioning 3: Beyond just partition elimination
In Partitioning 2, I showed how to analyze which partitions were accessed by our Index Seek. However, we were searching...
2019-03-04 (first published: 2019-02-14)
1,882 reads
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
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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