Test your UPDATEs and DELETEs before you run them
This isn’t so much of a best practice, it comes more under the heading of being careful. Let’s say you...
2015-02-18
2,239 reads
SQLStudies
Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 1
Nov 12, 2014
Dear Diary,
They asked for help again. Every now and again everything slows down and they see a lot...
2015-02-26 (first published: 2015-02-16)
8,774 reads
TSQL Tuesday #63 – How do you manage security: Rollup
When I decided on security as my topic for February’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party my thought was that security was...
2015-02-12
924 reads
TSQL Tuesday #63: – DBA Myths: You can’t deny something to a member of db_owner database role
So I’m hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and decided that since security is something everyone has to deal with it...
2015-02-19 (first published: 2015-02-10)
7,231 reads
Dealing with layered function calls
T-SQL is not the best language in the world for formatting strings. It can be done, but typically you are...
2015-02-16 (first published: 2015-02-05)
6,295 reads
TSQL Tuesday #63 – How do you manage security?
Come on down! You’re the next contestant on T-SQL Tuesday! I’m your host Kenneth Fisher and this month I’d thought...
2015-02-03
931 reads
A quick email interview of Pass President Thomas LaRock
Back in December I had the thought that it would be fun to do an email interview with someone. As...
2015-02-06 (first published: 2015-01-28)
6,836 reads
SQL Judo’s Monthly Challenge – February 2014 – KILL with the DAC
Every month SQL Judo (Russ Thomas) (b/t) challenges us to do his Monthly DBA Challenge. I’ve decided it would be...
2015-01-29 (first published: 2015-01-26)
6,310 reads
Constraint names, Say NO to the default
Have you ever seen a constraint with a name like PK__TableNam__EA185FBF8FF1529D? It’s kind of funny looking right? I mean it...
2015-01-21
1,947 reads
Except and Intersect
EXCEPT and INTERSECT are two uncommon commands. Not that they do anything odd but they aren’t exactly well known in...
2015-01-23 (first published: 2015-01-19)
8,662 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers