Table Hierarchy updated
Recently a need resurfaced to explore the foreign key tree (hierarchy/genealogy) as it related to a specific table within a database. As I pulled out the script from the...
2014-01-21
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Table Hierarchy updated
Recently a need resurfaced to explore the foreign key tree (hierarchy/genealogy) as it related to a specific table within a...
2014-01-21
851 reads
Win a Free Conference Pass to SQL Server Live in Las Vegas
Taking responsibility for your professional development and making it a priority is essential to being a successful Data Professional. It’s...
2014-01-21
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Power BI for Office 365 pricing announced
Pricing for Power BI for Office 365 has been announced (see pricing).
It’s all very confusing to me but Melissa Coates does a...
2014-01-21
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Three Hundred!
Just announced on Friday, SQLSaturday #300 will be held in Kansas City, MO, on September 13, 2014 . Everything about that...
2014-01-21
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Using Outlook.com
I looked at Outlook.com when it launched and recently revisited. I connected a couple of my personal email accounts to...
2014-01-21
540 reads
Thaw, Rinse, Repeat – #SQLPlunge
Three years ago in March of 2011, on a whim, I jumped into a hole in a frozen lake into...
2014-01-21
605 reads
Moving WordPress to Windows Azure
For the past year or so I’ve hosted this blog at Godaddy using their web hosting service. It took a...
2014-01-24 (first published: 2014-01-21)
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Why no discussion of MarkLogic / NoSQL security in light of Obamacare security fiasco?
We are awaiting Polar Vortex 2 in New England and are set to have more snow dumped on us starting...
2014-01-21
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Myths and Misconceptions about Transaction Isolation Levels
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-27 (first published: 2014-01-21)
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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