Beginning Powershell Companion PDF
Howdy all…as is so often the case, I’m studying something – Powershell – and I’m in need of a reference to help...
2011-01-06
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Blogs
January Question: As a DBA, how do you manage your disk space?
Managing disk space is an important resposibility of the DBA, and there are many ways to perform this task. In...
2011-01-05
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31 Days of SSIS – Raw Files Are Awesome (1/31)
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m writing 31 Days of SSIS. Let’s start off this series with a...
2011-01-05
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Can You Dig It? – StmtCursor and StmtReceive Elements
She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittA few posts ago in the plan cache series I discussed the children for the...
2011-01-04
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SQL Server Workload Types and Hardware Selection
There are two primary relational workload types that SQL Server commonly has to deal with, the first being Online Transaction...
2011-01-03
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Getting a Dedicated Admin Connection
Did you know you can easily get a Dedicated Admin Connection (DAC) in SSMS? I didn’t assuming that I’d need...
2010-12-31
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PBM and PowerShell
The best new management feature added to SQL Server 2008 is Policy Based Management or PBM. PBM allows DBAs to...
2010-12-30
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SQL Server Storage Internals Part 5 - Properties of Clustered and Non Clustered Index pages
In this article, I thought of explaining different types and levels of index pages. but while start preparing for that, I realise...
2010-12-29
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The Twelve Days of (SQL) Christmas
Once upon a time a group of twelve bloggers agreed to each pick a post (or posts) they found interesting...
2010-12-28
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SQL Server Storage Internals Part 2 - Partitions and Allocation Units
Before moving on to see anatomy of different types of pages, lets spend some time to understand
The relationship among sys.objects,...
2010-12-27
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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...
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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