Awesome new features in SQL Server 2011 “Denali”: IIF and CHOOSE functions
SQL Server 2011 “Denali” introduces two new features for flow control which may help you to keep your T-SQL cleaner than...
2011-08-02
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SQL Treeo
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly SQL Cursor types
T-SQL cursors are generally bad approach and are often misused. In today’s world of correlated subqueries, CTE’s, recursive CTE’s, ranking...
2011-07-30
1,935 reads
SQL Azure – simple description, part I.
I was studying SQL Azure parameters some time ago and found out that there are no materials which tell you...
2011-07-29
1,764 reads
T-SQL refactoring
Keeping your SQL objects’ naming rules during furious development is hard. New levels of information are added continuously, entities are...
2011-07-28
2,731 reads
Fastest row counting method
SELECT COUNT(*) is most common method (and exact) how to find out how many records is in table. There is...
2011-07-26
6,368 reads
Partial name matching in SQL Server 2011 “Denali”
While playing with SQL Server 2011 “Denali”, I’ve accidentally found out that it has slightly enhanced intellisense in SSMS. There...
2011-07-21
1,379 reads
Article: How to use temporary table in function
Steve Jones from voiceofthedba.com, editor on SQLServerCentral.com gave me an opportunity to publish humble article about workaround solution for using...
2011-07-21
493 reads
Custom folders SSMS Add-In slightly delayed
I am desperately trying to finalize this add-in and it is very very close. I was performing another testing on...
2011-07-17
537 reads
SQL Injection is still actual :)
Here are two samples showing that SQL Injection is still here and dangerous !!!
source:xkcd.com
This use case is especially insidious
2011-07-16
665 reads
Tracking table changes seamlessly with Change Data Capture (CDC)
I am going to describe quite forgotten feature in SQL Server 2008. It is Change Data Capture (CDC) – powerful feature...
2011-07-15
2,477 reads
Blogs
From Data Custodian to Innovation Catalyst: The Evolving Role of the CDO
By Chris Yates
There was a time when the Chief Data Officer lived in the shadows of...
Down the Rabbit Hole: Dealing with Ad-Hoc Data Requests
By Rayis Imayev
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help...
Adding a Local Model to Ollama through the GUI
By Steve Jones
I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places...
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SQL Server Advanced Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning: Best Practices and Techniques
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Question of the Day
Estimated Rows
I have two calls to the GENERATE_SERIES TVF in this code:
SELECT TOP 10 gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 10) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE); go DECLARE @a int = 10; SELECT TOP (@a) gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, @a) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE);In the actual query plans, what is the estimated number of rows for each batch? See possible answers