Paperwork Day
Doing payments for articles, expenses, and a few articles. This is definitely a paperwork day. As much as I like...
2007-10-01
654 reads
The Quickest Podcast in the Business
I almost forgot to record the podcast for tomorrow's editorial. In case you're a glutton for punishment, it's here. I'd...
2007-09-30
1,618 reads
Clustered Indexes
I work almost exclusively with third party applications. I don't get to do a lot of tuning except for reports...
2007-09-30
1,301 reads
I Don't Have a Black Eye
Though it kind of looks like that. Here's the first video podcast.
Halo 3
Actually it's probably the 20th, but it's close...
2007-09-29
1,458 reads
Monitoring and Alerting
I responded in an interesting thread this morning where someone was looking for advice on what to monitor on their...
2007-09-28
1,579 reads
Points or Posts
It's an interesting question that we had come up, and honestly I'm not completely sure what I want. I'll describe...
2007-09-27
1,426 reads
I Am Not In Charge
That is for sure.
We had a development meeting today with my publishing team (meaning I'm on the team, not leading...
2007-09-26
1,480 reads
DTS vs Linked Server
We are trying to move to version 2 of our accounting data warehouse (more likely called a datamart), but it...
2007-09-25
1,607 reads
Development at High Speed
As with any project, despite being fairly pleased with the final product, there were bugs. In fact, quite a few...
2007-09-25
1,396 reads
Flawed URL Validation and Not Eating Your Own Dog Food
MS includes a bunch of reasonably nice validation controls in VS 2005 and one of them includes the ability to...
2007-09-25
1,405 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