Presenting at SQL Saturday #111
On Saturday, April 14, 2012, I’ll be presenting “Table Vars and Temp Tables – What you NEED to know!” at SQL...
2012-03-28
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The Encryption Primer
SQL Server has a number of encryption features that allow you to better secure your data. This session will examine...
2012-03-28
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Unstructured Data in SQL Server
More and more of our data does not fit neatly into a structured, relational model of rows and columns of...
2012-03-28
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SQL Server # Storing Hierarchical Data – Parent Child n’th level # TSQL
Introduction
Today, I would like to explain one way in which we can store the HIERARCHICAL data in SQL tables. A...
2012-03-28
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SQL Server # Storing Hierarchical Data – Parent Child n’th level # TSQL
Introduction
Today, I would like to explain one way in which we can store the HIERARCHICAL data in SQL tables. A...
2012-03-27
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X on XMLA: ii. Basic Structure of XMLA
The second post in the XMLA series focuses on the basic structure of XMLA. At its heart, XMLA is XML. ...
2012-03-27
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SQL Server 2012 Synopsis - Mission Critical Applications Combined With The Fantastic 12 New Features or "The Baker's Dozen" as described by Microsoft this Week
Notes by Hugo S., Print Screens from three Microsoft Presentations
7 December, 2011 with Additions combined from early February 2012 day-long...
2012-03-27
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Powershell – Adding accounts to Local Security Policy
One of the challenges I’ve had over the years is figuring out a way to add the SQL Service accounts...
2012-03-27
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SQL Server Database Mirroring Tips and Tricks, Part 3
One of the challenges you face with SQL Server database mirroring is making sure that all of the databases that...
2012-03-27
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Stress Thoughts–Part 2
One thing I’ve learned is that even losing one hour of sleep or just not sleeping well degrades my ability...
2012-03-27
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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