March #Meme15 – Facebook
It’s the early morning of the 16th, and time to write my #meme15 post. Remember, these are due on or...
2012-03-16
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1 year old sandwich
It's been an interesting day. It was the 1 year anniversary of SQLSandwiches today. It was also my last day working...
2012-03-16
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Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 3: PowerPivot
Today I’ll be continuing in a blog series designed to help you decide which presentation tool is best for your...
2012-03-21 (first published: 2012-03-16)
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Execution Plans – Merge Join
The Merge Join is a Physical Operation when joining 2 sets of data that are in the same order.
There...
2012-03-15
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Columnstore Indexs
Columnstore Indexes for Fast DW
The SQL Server 11.0 release (2012) introduces a new data warehouse query acceleration feature based on...
2012-03-19 (first published: 2012-03-15)
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Security and Permissions presentation from the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group Meeting, 3/14/2012
Last night I presented a new presentation I'm working to add to my inventory, SQL Server Permission and Security. This...
2012-03-15
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Debugging query timeouts by sampling blocking – part 2
In part 1 I explained how I was hunting for the root cause for some query timeouts that happened every...
2012-03-20 (first published: 2012-03-15)
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#Meme15: On Facebook
This will be my first Meme15 (here’s Jason Strate’s original Meme15 post), and today we’re talking Facebook. The question is:
How...
2012-03-15
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ColoradoSQL for March 2012
All ColoradoSQL user group meetings start at 5:30 p.m. and provide food and refreshments. There is no cost to attend...
2012-03-15
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Tempdb quick notes from Professional SQL Server 2008 internals and troubleshooting
I spent sometime to understand more about tempdb today. posting some key points for our quick reference.
some key books/links on...
2012-03-15
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Blogs
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,...
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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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