What A Year That Was
If anything, 2020 is an asterisk. Some lost their jobs. Some lost their loved ones. Perhaps more books will be written about it. Pundits will keep the conversation going....
2021-01-04
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SQL PowerShell to check and repair Ad-hoc distributed queries Vulnerability
Introduction Ad hoc distributed queries use the OPENROWSET and OPENDATASOURCE functions to connect to remote data sources that use OLE DB. As the name suggests, ad-hoc distributed queries should...
2021-01-04
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Top 3 Easy Help Queries for XEvents in Azure SQL
These are a few simple queries to help you along your way to becoming better acquainted w/ XEvents in Azure SQL. These queries will make XEvents easier for you!
The...
2021-01-04
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Top 3 Easy Help Queries for XEvents in Azure SQL
These are a few simple queries to help you along your way to becoming better acquainted w/ XEvents in Azure SQL. These queries will make XEvents easier for you!
The...
2021-01-04
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Top 3 Easy Help Queries for XEvents in Azure SQL
These are a few simple queries to help you along your way to becoming better acquainted w/ XEvents in Azure SQL. These queries will make XEvents easier for you!
The...
2021-01-13 (first published: 2021-01-04)
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Top 3 Easy Help Queries for XEvents in Azure SQL
These are a few simple queries to help you along your way to becoming better acquainted w/ XEvents in Azure SQL. These queries will make XEvents easier for you!
The...
2021-01-04
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Saving PASS Pro Videos
PASS will close down their websites on 15 Jan 2021. That’s just a couple weeks away, and if you’re someone that paid for a year of PASS Pro access,...
2021-01-08 (first published: 2021-01-04)
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[MSSQLTIPS] Rookie of the Year Candidate – Vote for ME
Welcome to the New Year of 2021. For some people I know, they might prefer to forget most if not all of 2020. Personally, I am not one...
2021-01-04
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Syncing SQL databases
There are various ways to keep SQL Server databases and SQL Database/SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) databases in-sync asynchronously that I will discuss in this blog. The main use...
2021-01-04
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Syncing SQL databases
There are various ways to keep SQL Server databases and SQL Database/SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) databases in-sync asynchronously that I will discuss in this blog. The main use...
2021-01-05 (first published: 2021-01-04)
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Blogs
A Last Minute Trip to the EU
By Steve Jones
My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer...
Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency
In Part 1, we saw how ‘Vamana’ represents vectors as nodes, connects them with...
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
Forums
Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in...
AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
Comments posted to this topic are about the item AI Experience Gap that we...
Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers