Off to the PASS Data Community Summit 2024
As this publishes, I’ll get taxiing down the runway at DIA (fingers crossed) and flying to Seattle for the PASS Data Community Summit 2024. I’m very lucky that I...
2024-11-04
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As this publishes, I’ll get taxiing down the runway at DIA (fingers crossed) and flying to Seattle for the PASS Data Community Summit 2024. I’m very lucky that I...
2024-11-04
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Next week is the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle. I’ll be traveling Monday to the event to see a few thousand fellow data professionals, developers, managers, and...
2024-11-01
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bye-over – n. the sheepish casual vibe between two people who’ve shred an emotional farewell but then unexpectedly have a little extra time together, wordlessly agreeing to pretend that...
2024-11-01
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I looked at row_number() in a previous post. Now I want to build on that and do some counting of rows with COUNT() and the OVER clause. I’ll show...
2024-11-15 (first published: 2024-10-30)
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One of the things that many DBAs struggle with is managing space across an estate. There might be one or two servers that you watch closely, or that are...
2024-11-11 (first published: 2024-10-28)
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feresy – n. the fear that your partner is changing in ways you don’t understand, even though they might be changes for the better, because it forces you to...
2024-10-25
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Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used with a read-only database as a source. It’s a good questions as I’ve seen some...
2024-11-08 (first published: 2024-10-21)
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Here are the slides from my talk today: CI in Azure DevOps If you have questions, please feel free to contact me (top menu above).
2024-10-18
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I got asked this question recently: I constantly see PostgreSQL on Microsoft slides, email, ads, etc. My MCADAA exam started with an entire section on it. I’m trying to...
2024-11-01 (first published: 2024-10-18)
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hickering – n. the habit of falling hard for whatever pretty new acquaintance happens to come along, spending hours wallowing in the handful of details you can gather about...
2024-10-18
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When I put together the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #202, I wasn't sure what...
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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