Why Do I Blog? #meme15
As I mentioned in a post last week, a new meme has been born. This one is dedicated to discussing...
2011-12-19 (first published: 2011-12-15)
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Why I Blog – #Meme15
A fellow blogger and SQL guy, Jason Strate (@stratesql) started a meme on Social Networking as a result of a...
2011-12-15
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How many times the T-SQL inside the CTE is executed?
Introduction
Common Table Expression (CTE) has become very popular these days. However, many users of CTE still have a myth that...
2011-12-19 (first published: 2011-12-15)
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How to change the SQL Server service account
It’s easy. First you click here:
Then you find the SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2 program group
Open those and then...
2011-12-15
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Will You Buy Refurbished? Part 2
Yesterday I shared the small adventure of buying a refurbished laptop. While I was at Compusa looking at laptops I...
2011-12-15
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PASS Board of Directors – Who I’m Voting For
I was inspired by fellow blogger and all around good guy Nic Cain (Twitter, blog) to write about the PASS BoD...
2011-12-15
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#meme15 – Why Do You Blog?
Jason Strate (blog|@StrateSQL) is starting a new blog meme: #meme15. The overall topic of #meme15 will be social networking, obviously...
2011-12-15
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SQL Saturday 99 – SSWUG Interview
Welcome to the fifth of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland)...
2011-12-15
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Why I blog #Meme15
I’d seen various #meme tweets on twitter but it wasn’t until I saw this blog by John Sansom (Blog|Twitter) that...
2011-12-15
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PowerPivot Data Connection Error
PowerPivot report returns the following error from Excel Services:
The data connection uses Windows Authentication and user credentials could not be...
2011-12-15
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Blogs
Why AI isn’t paying off yet, and what to invest in first
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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
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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