Randomizing Result Sets with NEWID
Seth Delconte brings us a technique to solve a common request. Using the NEWID function to return a random record from a result set.
2010-03-01
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T-SQL
2010-02-22
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Tips for Simplifying Crosstab Query Statements
Rob Gravelle takes a complex SQL statement and shows you several ways to re-write it that both simplifies and shortens it, while still yielding the same results.
2010-02-22
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Cleaning Up Garbage from Data
Cleaning up garbage from data can be a big problem for a developer.Check out a simple solution from Shubhajyoti Ghosh to cleaning up garbage from data.
2010-02-22
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Forecasting with SQL
Can you use SQL Server to extrapolate out trends from your data? Lots of companies would have you buy a BI solution instead, but new author Mark Wojciechowicz brings us a great example of how you could forecast something in T-SQL.
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usp_TransposeNRows v2.0
Transpose N rows of a table (v2.0 allows user to specify the table's schema)
2014-09-10 (first published: 2010-01-29)
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BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers