SQLSaturday Goes International
Looking at 2011 and the planned events so far for 2012 it’s easy to see that SQLSaturday is starting to...
2011-12-20
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Mark a Disk Partition as Inactive
If you are like me then you like to reinstall Windows on your laptop every few months to keep things...
2011-12-20
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Full Load. Incremental Load. Whaaat?
Back when i was in school, me and a bunch of friends used to hangout at a diner. The diner was...
2011-12-20
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Public Role and Security
A good rule of thumb with the public role is to leave it be. Do not add permissions to this role. Add permissions on a per database and per...
2011-12-20
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Public Role and Security
Having flown a fair amount lately, I was thinking about the various levels of security within an airport. Part of...
2011-12-29 (first published: 2011-12-20)
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Q.How Many Weeks in the Year? A.It depends
ISOWEEK 52 Weeks in the Year
Stardate 12:20:2011 Week 51 SSC.Com Web Blog, Planet Earth. With only approximately two weeks left...
2011-12-28 (first published: 2011-12-20)
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SQL Server 2012 – new conversion functions
With SQL Server 2012 comes a new set of conversion functions, that will certainly help doing type casts and conversions...
2011-12-20
1,217 reads
SSAS – Display Folders
Display folders are an often used tool in Analysis Services to help end users navigate through a cube or dimension...
2011-12-27 (first published: 2011-12-20)
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Creating a Service Master Key in SQL Server
The basis for all the encryption in SQL Server is the Service Master Key, which is the top of the...
2011-12-19
4,568 reads
Suspect Database
Suspect database generally caused by internal IO issue, and the best way to resolve it to ask hardware person to...
2011-12-19
501 reads
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,...
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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