The Murder train chugs into Raleigh
You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get...
2014-08-11
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New website
As you can see the webpage has changed!
New features are:
– Syntax highlighting on code snippets (and easy copy/paste)
– Better readability
–...
2014-08-11
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #96
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-08-11
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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 32
I just paused our first LinkedIn campaign, the one that was based on a functional area of IT in the...
2014-08-11
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 38 (“Memory Structures”)
Continuation from the previous 37 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
In the past I have been writing quite a lot on the...
2014-08-11
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Guest Editorial Live on SSC
My guest editorial is live on SQLServerCentral.com. My argument is a simple one: we don’t care about data and IT...
2014-08-11
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SQL Server 2005 || Database backup failed because Full Text catalog files are OFFLINE
Error : Database backup is getting fail with below reason.
The backup of full-text catalog ‘FullTextCatalog’ is not permitted because it is...
2014-08-11
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Do We Care?
Today’s editorial at SQLServerCental is entitled: We Don’t Care about Data and IT Security. It’s by Brian Kelley (author, blog,...
2014-08-11
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Like() function in SQL Server
Like:- This operator is used in a WHERE clause to search for a specific pattern in the values of the...
2014-08-11
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Best practices for Database Programming
1. All the tables in the database have properly defined relationship using primary keys and foreign keys .
2. Indexes should...
2014-08-11
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Blogs
Are Blogs Still Relevant? I Think They Still Are.
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
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Pay for Performance
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Slow - Linked server query
Hi I have this slow query that is pulling data from a linked server....
Too Many Choices
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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