2007-08-02
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Administration
2007-08-01
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Get And Set SQL Server 2005 Instance Registry Values
Most SQL Server DBAs will never need to read the registry for their instances, however in case you do find yourself needing to read or write something in SQL Server 2005, Vince Iacoboni brings us a technique for performing both of these actions.
2007-07-31
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2007-07-25
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2007-07-17
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2007-07-16
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2007-07-12
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Don't Upgrade to SQL Server 2005
It's been almost three years since SQL Server 2005 was released and Steve Jones current recommendation is that you don't upgrade right now. Read on to see why he's giving this advice.
2007-07-11
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Pop Rivett and the Expanding Log
When your database transaction log is out of control, there is only one man who can tame it.
2007-07-06
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2007-07-05
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #202 SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget: A Roundup
When I put together the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #202, I wasn't sure what...
A Last Minute Trip to the EU
By Steve Jones
My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer...
Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency
In Part 1, we saw how ‘Vamana’ represents vectors as nodes, connects them with...
Forums
Server-Level Table sizes
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Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
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Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers