What Do You Want Auditors to Know About Auditing SQL Server?
Right now it looks like I'll be putting a training session on for my local ISACA chapter on SQL Server...
2009-01-22
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Read-Only Access to SQL Server Jobs
This question comes up a lot: how do I give read-only access to job status to a group of people?...
2009-01-22
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Influence
I saw Paul Kenny of Ocean Learningspeak about sales least year at the Business of Software Conference. I thought he...
2009-01-22
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Notes from the January 2009 oPASS Meeting
We had our first oPASS meeting of the year last week with about 18 attending. Jonathan Kehayias was our featured...
2009-01-21
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Play the T-SQL Alphabet Game
I recently had the opportunity to play the T-SQL Alphabet Game, which was introduced to me by SQL Server MVP,...
2009-01-21
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Mastering SQL Server Profiler E-Book Available for Free
After a lot of delays, my book on how to use SQL Server Profiler has been published by Simple-Talk Publishing,...
2009-01-21
4,403 reads
Video: xp_cmdshell execution in SQL Server 2005/2008
The video I did for Jumpstart TV on xp_cmdshell execution has hit the front page. Registration on the site is...
2009-01-21
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Networking - Part 3
Continuing the conversation I began in Part 1 & Part 2, today I want to ruminate some more on networking. I've...
2009-01-20
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Fake LinkedIn profiles with links to malware
This is a little old (five days based on the last update), but TrendMicro put on their blog about fake...
2009-01-20
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Conficker / Downadup Worm One More Time
Hopefully by now everyone has seen this, but if not, here's a reminder to continue to spread the details. Denis Gobo...
2009-01-20
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Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
Forums
Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in...
AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
Comments posted to this topic are about the item AI Experience Gap that we...
Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers