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PowerShell – Find OS architecture (32 bit or 64 bit) of local or remote machines Using Powershell

Method 1: Environment Variable
PS:\>$ENV:PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
Method 2: Using Win32_OperatingSystem
ps:\>$computername=’abcd’
ps:\>(Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem -computername $computername).OSArchitecture
Method 3: Using Win32_Processor
ps:\>$computername=’abcd’
ps:\>Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Processor -ComputerName $ComputerName| Select-Object AddressWidth
Method 4:[IntPtr]::Size - Gets the...

2014-01-06

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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?

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