Watch SQL in the City Streamed September 2018
I’m over in the UK and we have SQL in the City Streamed tomorrow. This is our September edition, and...
2018-09-04
249 reads
Did Not Know That - Redirecting CMD to the Clipboard
One of the items I frequently deal with as a Production DBA is drive alarms. I have written previously about...
2018-09-12 (first published: 2018-09-04)
2,880 reads
Interview Query – 1
Somewhere on internet i found this question. Thought to share it with you all. We have two tables, school_students and Class_student. ...
2018-09-04
49 reads
Interview Query – 1
Somewhere on internet i found this question. Thought to share it with you all.
We have two tables, school_students and Class_student.
...
2018-09-17 (first published: 2018-09-04)
2,504 reads
Don’t cutoff yourself with dates in T-SQL – Did you know…
Almost all the applications we use have a lot of options. And, sometimes we even stumble across them by accident.
Who’s...
2018-09-04
271 reads
Data Professionals at Work – a book-writing adventure
I love to write. It is how I express myself best. During the last fall I was pondering starting on...
2018-09-04
280 reads
Does The Order Of Index Columns Matter?
When beginning to learn SQL, at some point you learn that indexes can be created to help improve the performance...
2018-09-13 (first published: 2018-09-04)
5,034 reads
Does The Order Of Index Columns Matter?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
When beginning to learn SQL, at some point you learn that indexes can be created to help improve the performance of queries.
Creating your first...
2018-09-04
15 reads
Does The Order Of Index Columns Matter?
Watch this week's video on YouTube
When beginning to learn SQL, at some point you learn that indexes can be created to help improve the performance of queries.
Creating your first...
2018-09-04
9 reads
Looking at the PASS FY 2019 Budget
I just spent a few more minutes looking at the FY 2019 budget. It is hard to assess whether it’s...
2018-09-14 (first published: 2018-09-04)
1,537 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