A New Word: Lookaback
lookaback– n. the chock of meeting back up with someone and learning that your mental image of them had fallen wildly out of date – having grown up or...
2025-05-09
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lookaback– n. the chock of meeting back up with someone and learning that your mental image of them had fallen wildly out of date – having grown up or...
2025-05-09
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In a couple of weeks, I’ll be in New York City for the Redgate DevOps Devour Hour Lunch and Learn. This is at the Industrious office at 730 3rd...
2025-05-07
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After missing last year, SQL Saturday New York City is back in 2025. I’m excited to go to the event and honored to speak there. I love visiting New...
2025-05-06
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I had a customer recently that was asking about Linked Servers and some development advice. I was going to show them a few things and realized I hadn’t created...
2025-05-05
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If you are not embarrassed by your past self, you have probably not grown up yet. – from Excellent Advice for Living While I’d like to think most of...
2025-05-02
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No tour this year, but Redgate does have a few DevOps events scheduled. I’m hoping for more, and the first one for me this year is Atlanta. You can...
2025-05-01
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I had a customer recently ask about a change in one of their constraints on production, where a new option appeared when they went to deploy some changes from...
2025-04-30
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SQL Saturday Austin 2025 is in just a few days. I am honored to be speaking there, and glad to be going back. I’ve missed a number of the...
2025-04-29
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I’ve been using the SSMS preview for v21. This is the next evolution of SSMS, where the VS shell is finally being updated. For many of us, SSMS has...
2025-04-28
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Many organizations list customer testimonials and quotes on their websites or literature. It makes sense to show off those places where you’ve done well in hopes of influencing others...
2025-05-16 (first published: 2025-04-25)
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When I put together the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #202, I wasn't sure what...
By Steve Jones
My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer...
In Part 1, we saw how ‘Vamana’ represents vectors as nodes, connects them with...
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I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
What is the result? See possible answers