Why Customers Are Looking At Azure
As a Principal Consultant with Pragmatic Works, I have many conversations with customers about moving to Azure. As a Consulting...
2018-09-19
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Apply for the 2019 Idera ACE Program
Sharing this before I forget, Idera is taking applications for their 2019 ACE Program. If you’re wanting to do more...
2018-09-19
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Public Service Announcement: check your backup notifications
The Azure cloud platform lost a data centre for a number of hours recently due to inclement weather. This affected...
2018-09-19
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What is Projectsv13 in SQL Change Automation?
I got this question recently from someone that was evaluating the SQL Change Automation client in Visual Studio. After setting...
2018-09-19
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All about PASS Summit 2018
Here are the things you must/should probably know about PASS Summit 2018, as told by me. First Timers Read this...
2018-09-19
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Three skills to look for in a technology partner
SQL Treeo’s founder and CEO, Danny Riebeek, reflects on his 20+ years in the IT industry. Q: What prompted you...
2018-09-19
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Overview of SQL Joins in SQL Server
The ability to combine results from related rows from multiple tables is an important part of relational database system design. In SQL...
2018-09-19
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Midlands PASS Reboot!
If you’re in or near the Columbia, SC area, we are rebooting the Midlands PASS Chapter. Here is our first...
2018-09-19
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Databases and DevOps, It’s Not Just Me
Anyone who subscribes to my blog or my YouTube channel as well as anyone following me on social media knows...
2018-09-19
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You can’t DELETE TOP (x) with an ORDER BY
Did you know you can’t do this?
DELETE TOP (10)
FROM SalesOrderDetail
ORDER BY SalesOrderID DESC;Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 8
Incorrect...
2018-09-27 (first published: 2018-09-19)
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Blogs
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...
How I Built RAG for My Accounting App on Bedrock and pgvector
The first version of my accounting assistant could not find a single purchase of...
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Slow - Linked server query
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Too Many Choices
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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