2010-09-28
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T-SQL
2010-09-27
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Eliminating Duplicate Rows using The PARTITION BY clause
The Partition clause in the Row_Number() Over() function is a quick tool for eliminating duplicate rows.
2012-03-02 (first published: 2010-09-22)
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2010-09-17
3,085 reads
Minesweeper in T-SQL
Whatever happened to the idea that programming in TSQL can be fun? A Simple-Talk reader contributes an article to remind us all that there is more to TSQL than wrestling with DMVs and pummelling recalcitrant correlated subqueries.
2010-09-17
5,029 reads
Identifying and Eliminating the Dreaded Cartesian Product
Cartesian Products usually don't provide useful information and often result in mistakes that can hurt your database developer career. Learn to spot Cartesian Joins and banish them from your SELECT queries forever.
2010-09-10
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2010-09-08
4,192 reads
2010-09-06
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Retreive the Schema of a Stored Procedure or Function
This script shows you code that retrives schema of a routine (Stored procedure or a function).
2010-09-09 (first published: 2010-09-04)
1,981 reads
2010-09-01
3,849 reads
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In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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