January Midlands PASS meeting - Hosting Ed Wilson, the "Scripting Guy"
On January 10, 2012, Midlands PASS is pleased to welcome back PowerShell expert and teacher, Ed Wilson (blog | twitter), and...
2011-12-30
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RedGate SQL Index Manager BETA
I recently attended the first micro training event with Red Gate where Grant Fritchey demonstrated a BETA tool called SQL...
2011-12-29
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How Many Calls? Part 2
I wrote recently about a report that a friend of mine needed from his Access database. In the first post,...
2011-12-29
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SQL Saturday 99 – Confio Interview
Welcome to the seventh of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog |@ArnieRowland)...
2011-12-29
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SQL Server A to Z – CPU-Z
How fitting that I should close out the A to Z series while I close out the year. We’ve finally...
2011-12-29
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December Recap
The past few months I have been pretty busy. December is no exception to that. Between normal work, moonlighting as a general contractor on my own basement, and trying...
2011-12-29
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December Recap
The past few months I have been pretty busy. December is no exception to that. Between normal work, moonlighting as...
2011-12-29
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Danish Developer Conference – DDC 2012
I am proud to announce that we at Geniiius will be speaking at DDC 2012. DDC 2012 is a one...
2011-12-29
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What is SQL Saturday?
I saw the following post from Andy Warren (blog | twitter), one of the creators of SQL Saturday. He was trying to...
2011-12-29
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Ready for the new year?
The New Year is just around the corner. Every year I make a resolution. And every time I fail. That...
2011-12-29
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Blogs
Why AI isn’t paying off yet, and what to invest in first
Why isn’t AI paying off yet? Drawing on lessons from digital transformation, Joyful Craftsmen...
Flyway Tips: Analytics Platforms (Snowflake and Databricks)
By Steve Jones
I’m really excited about some growth in Flyway support. I’ve been asking about this...
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers