Server-Level Roles – Back to Basics
In this article, I have shown how to use the power of custom server roles to help reduce your administration time. The custom security role is like using a...
2020-11-20
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Server-Level Roles – Back to Basics
In this article, I have shown how to use the power of custom server roles to help reduce your administration time. The custom security role is like using a...
2020-11-20
47 reads
Server-Level Roles – Back to Basics
In this article, I have shown how to use the power of custom server roles to help reduce your administration time. The custom security role is like using a...
2020-12-02 (first published: 2020-11-20)
387 reads
Book Review: Making Work Visible
I was recommended Making Work Visible by a developer at Redgate Software. The book caught my eye as it seeks to ensure you can work more efficiently by watching...
2020-12-04 (first published: 2020-11-20)
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The Silliness of a Group
Recently we had a quick online tutorial for Mural, a way of collaborating online with a group. It’s often used for design, but it can be used for brainstorming...
2020-11-20
27 reads
Daily Coping 20 Nov 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-11-20
22 reads
Sharding Mongodb
Sharding is a method for distributing data across multiple machines. MongoDB uses sharding to support deployments with very large data sets and high throughput operations.(more...)
2020-11-20
24 reads
Power BI Monthly Digest – November 2020
In this month’s Power BI Digest Matt and I will again guide you through some of the latest and greatest Power BI updates this month.
2020-12-01 (first published: 2020-11-20)
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Announcing EightKB 2021
The first EightKB back in July was a real blast. Five expert speakers delivered mind-melting content to over 1,000 attendees!
We were honestly blown away by how successful the first...
2020-11-19
17 reads
Announcing EightKB 2021
The first EightKB back in July was a real blast. Five expert speakers delivered mind-melting content to over 1,000 attendees! We were honestly blown away by how successful the...
2020-11-19
63 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202 SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget: A Roundup
When I put together the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #202, I wasn't sure what...
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...
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Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
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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